Another hotel planned near busy I-65 interchange in Whitestown

Another hotel project is in the works in Whitestown north of the intersection of Interstate 65 and Whitestown Parkway.

Zionsville-based Spiars Engineering LLC and Zionsville-based Jaipreet Investment Corp. have teamed up and submitted plans to the town of Whitestown to build an 86,500-square-foot dual-branded TownePlace Suites and Springhill Suites hotel with 136 rooms and five floors at 5887 Perry Worth Road.

Plans call for the hotel to be built on the former site of a radio tower and community facility between I-65 Exit 130 at Whitestown Parkway and Exit 131 at County Road East 550 South. The hotel would be built on a 3.23-acre parcel that is part of a larger 4.66-acre tract that will be divided to create two parcels. The hotel would have driveways onto Perry Worth Road and Juniors Way.

On Monday, members of the Whitestown Plan Commission unanimously approved a request to subdivide the site and a concept plan for the hotel. The Plan Commission is expected to review a development plan for the hotel next month.

In 2021, Indianapolis-based Emmis Communications Corp. rezoned roughly 57 acres of its radio-transmission facility that broadcasts WFNI-AM 1070 at 5875 Perry Worth Road to allow for mixed-use, commercial, office and residential developments.

Other developments built or under construction at the former Emmis site are The E Apartments, Greenview Apartments, The Grove Apartments and the Glasswater Creek of Whitestown assisted-living facility.

The TownePlace Suites and Springhill Suites hotel would be the latest development north of Whitestown Parkway in Whitestown, where residential, retail and industrial growth have developed near I-65’s Exit 130 in the $1 billion, 1,700-acre Anson mixed-use project.

Hotels that have been built near the interstate exit include WoodSpring Suites, Home2 Suites by Hilton, Fairfield Inn & Suites, Holiday Inn Express & Suites and Hampton Inn.