Dallas firm eyes 2017 opening for dual-branded hotel in Broomfield

BROOMFIELD — A Dallas hotel-development firm has broken ground on a dual-branded Residence Inn and Fairfield Inn & Suites in Broomfield that it hopes to have open by August or September of next year.

The 212-room hotel will sit on a 4.6-acre site at 455 Zang St., just south of West Flatiron Crossing Drive.

Jeff Blackman, who founded Bedford Lodging in 2013, said the Broomfield hotel will include 122 extended-stay units on the Residence Inn side and 90 rooms on the Fairfield side. The two brands will share a centralized lobby bar, library lounge, theater room, fitness center and swimming pool. Bedford will contract with Aimbridge Hospitality to manage the hotel.

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The hotel is the first for Bedford in Colorado, which is developing or has built three in Texas and another on the way in Northern California. But Blackman said he’s hoping to expand the footprint in the Denver metro area and, possibly, Fort Collins.

“I’ve been watching (the U.S. Highway 36) corridor for a long time,” Blackman said. “The hotels along there have done well and really started doing much better three or four years ago. I like the population growth and job growth in the corridor.”

Blackman declined to disclose the projected project cost for the hotel.