Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 11, 1995 TAG: 9503130061
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A6 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: JEFF STURGEON STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The 58-room hotel, a Country Inn by Carlson, is scheduled to open in spring 1996 in the 7800 block of Plantation Road near Walrond Drive. The 164-seat restaurant, a Country Kitchen, is to open this spring, according to the Roanoke County Economic Development Department. The project would employ 60.
Mike Sloan of Roanoke and members of his family will own the land and will fund and own the buildings through a newly formed entity called Plantation Development, Sloan said. Sloan now operates four Burger King restaurants in Roanoke and two in Danville.
Sloan and partner Michael Bond of Roanoke, an accountant and businessman who serves as financial officer for Sloan's Burger King business, formed Virginia Hospitality Ventures.
That new management company will develop the Roanoke Country Kitchen-Country Inn project and plans seven other Country Kitchens and possibly more hotels over 15 years in Southwest and Central Virginia, Sloan said.
Carlson, a Minneapolis hospitality and travel company, owns the 250-unit Country Kitchen restaurant chain and licenses TGIFriday's restaurants as well as the Country Inn, Radisson Hotels and Colony Resort Hotels brand names.
Contractor for the Plantation Road project will be J.M. Turner and Co. Inc. of Roanoke.
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