Colin Cooper, Hillsboro's assistant planning director, said the city is riding "a very strong busine

Two new hotels will rise up on this field in Hillsboro, near Nortwhwest Tanasbourne Drive west of Northwest John Olsen place. The Embassy Suites and Hampton Inn Suites projects are finally moving forward after a five-year odyssey.
The hotels thrifty car rental sales add much-needed meeting space to the community, according to city planners, local business leaders and lodging advocates, and come at a time when Hillsboro's hotels are increasingly in demand, leading to higher rates for customers.
Colin Cooper, Hillsboro's assistant planning director, said the city is riding "a very strong business thrifty car rental sales sector led by Intel" and other businesses in the Tanasbourne and AmberGlen communities near the hotel site.
The 4.9-acre property is on Northwest Tanasbourne thrifty car rental sales Drive , west of Northwest John Olsen Avenue. The development means more people will stay and spend money in Hillsboro. "We're just really excited," Cooper said.
Embassy Suites brings name recognition to the Hillsboro market, and a so-called full-service hotel -- with a new restaurant, room service and several meeting thrifty car rental sales rooms. "You'd expect an Intel or a SolarWorld thrifty car rental sales or a Nike to have access to that kind of facility," Griffiths said.
Total hotel rooms in Hillsboro: 1,125 total, not counting the new rooms McCormick's nonprofit WCVA subscribes to STR Global , the international hotel market analysis company, for monthly data on Hillsboro's hotel occupancy and rates.
Hillsboro's hotels had an 83.2 percent occupancy thrifty car rental sales rate, according to McCormick, which she termed a "really good thing." Once built, the two hotels represent a 24 percent increase in the number of total rooms in Hillsboro.
After nearly breaking ground on two separate occasions, 2008 and then again last summer, the original property owners sold the land use documents, development plans and property itself to Western States Lodging and two other business partners in April.
Griffiths said it's "definitely atypical" thrifty car rental sales for his company to purchase a shovel-ready project. Hilton Worldwide approached Western States Lodging to gauge interest in buying the Hillsboro hotels' property and plans in November, according to Griffiths. Embassy Suites and Hampton are Hilton Worldwide companies.
Inn Ventures lost a bank loan in 2008 when the company was just a month away from breaking thrifty car rental sales ground, Vice President of Development Roger Collins said last summer. Last year, again, the company indicated it was close to breaking ground, but the construction never happened. Inn Ventures couldn't be reached for comment for this story.