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Marriot Hotel Uptown Normal

Groundbreaking for the nine-story, 230 room Marriott Hotel & Conference center took place in February 2007.  The hotel, which will link to a 168,000 square foot, 500-space parking deck via a climate-controlled skywalk, includes a pool, restaurant, fitness center, business center, and a ninth floor concierge lounge with a view of the ISU campus.  The conference center will be owned by the Town of Normal while being managed by John Q. Hammons, a leading independent developer with more than 50 hotels across the United States.

 

"The Marriott Hotel & Conference Center project is undoubtedly the cornerstone of the Uptown Renewal Plan," boasted Normal  Mayor Chris Koos at the groundbreaking.  "This facility will be one of unparalleled quality in downstate Illinois."

 

Core Construction was awarded the contract for the hotel and conference center/parking garage and turned the exterior and interior package over to Associated Constructors.

 

The work would prove to be a challenge: the site sandwiched on one side by ISU's Watterson Towers - at 28 stories, the tallest residence hall in the United States and one of the tallest in the world - and on the other side by Old North Normal, a historic residential district featuring 30 different architectural styles of homes built between 1870 and 1950.  Additionally, there was other Uptown Normal development going on around the construction site, which necessitated that materials be delivered on an appointment basis.

 

The Marriott Hotel & Conference Center required nearly 1-million square feet of ProRoc and 125,000 suqare feet of GlasRoc to complete.

 

Associated Constructors bid the Marriott project using CertainTeed products exclusively.

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