New owner paid $2.82 million for south Rochester hotel
Jul. 6—ROCHESTER — A new owner paid $2.82 million to check into a south Rochester hotel.
Rochester Lodging LLC, which lists a Schaumburg, Illinois, residence owned by Vithal and Kamala Patel as its headquarters, recently purchased the
Days Inn & Suites by Wyndham hotel
.
The sale of the 114-room hotel at 3595 Commercial Drive SW closed on June 29. Rochester Lodging, which shares its home base address with Monona Lodging Inc., paid a down payment of $705,000.
Woodbury, Minn-based AMSA Hospitality, which lists the residence of Akm and Afrin Alam as its address, sold the 14-year-old extended stay hotel for $900,000 less than it purchased it for in 2019.
AMSA Hospitality paid $3.72 million
to Somitex, LLC of Sioux Falls, S.D.
When
Somitex purchased it in 2014 for $2.2 million
, the hotel changed brands from
Value Place Suites
to the Days Inn & Suites by Wyndham.
The four-story hotel originally
opened in May 2009
along the South U.S. Highway 63 frontage road on land that formerly served as
a parking lot for the former Fleet Farm store
.
Olmsted County estimated the total market value of the 45,488-square-foot hotel at $2.17 million for 2022-2023, which is down from $2.59 million the previous year.
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