Echo Suites Extended Stay by Wyndham is one of the fastest-growing hotel brands in the U.S. and Canada, and the flag will open its first property in Reno in the summer of 2025.
Sandpiper Hospitality of Richmond, Virginia, is developing the Echo Suites brand at 545 Double Eagle Court in South Meadows. The 42,661-square-foot, four-story building will be the third hotel property in the Truckee Meadows for Sandpiper, said Carter Rise Jr., vice president of development.
“Reno is a market we are really high on,” Rise said. “We have over 30 hotels in our portfolio, and a lot more that we manage third-party. We are always on the lookout for new opportunities, and (Reno) is an area we have been aggressively targeting by looking for land that would work for another property.
“Reno is an MSA that is growing, there is a lot of tech investment going in, and a lot of business development in the extended-stay space. Anywhere there is development and ground-up construction, that is a great demand driver for us,” he added. Sandpiper also owns the Courtyard by Marriott at 6855 S.
Virginia St., and last November it opened an Extended Stay America Premier Suites at the corners of East Lincoln Way and Howard Drive in Sparks. Occupancy at the new Sparks property has been excellent, Rise said, which lends confidence to developing additional extended-stay properties across the region.
“It gives us proof of concept,” he said. “The plans for (the new south Reno hotel) were in motion lo.