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,,ui uviu vjrcai raiis, ftionulHoward Johnson OpeJgll inlllvji I IIMU klis. u UJIi JI was the cause.In June, Say OwnersConstruction crews today were awaiting a break in the weather to begin ,Ja full speed schedule'’ oo a new Howard John*on Mold and Restaurant here.The owners and general contractor said the motel and restaurant will open 4‘in early June a I the Stone Drive fU. S.1UW) and Lynn Garden Drive (V. S. r intcr-ctange.The motel has been in the plan-tiing stages yinee 1957. The owners arc Howard Johnson Motorlodge of Kingsport, Inc. . .Malcolm J. Mori son Jr.. is president of the corporation. Other officers arc George D. Webster, vice president Annie Laura Morison, sccretaiy-treasurer; and M. J. Morison Sr., assistant secretary-treasurer.Including four acres of land, the mote! and restaura nt will cost ‘'about $1,250,000 when completed.The motel will have units— with each room approximately H feet by 2$ feet—for ihc early summer opening, but before the end of 1962 it will be expanded to Iff units, Morison said.Morison explained that, regulations of the Howard Johnson franchise will .not permit ihe entire construction to be undertaken atone time, We will open with 64 units; wait the required days,■ and add 50 more unils,” Morison |-said.j Tfe added (hat when completed j 'This Howard Johnson Motel will ;be ihe second largest in the lrnited Slates. The largest is in Miami, FIs.The restaurant, which will scat jWl People and feature a Lamp-I lighters Room” for private meet, jings, is to be completed for the I June opening.The motel and rcsimam will he in separate buddings, with a com-jbined street frontage of about 750 • feet.Motel guests will Mso be provided a 30 X Sft-fooi pool, plus a 15 x l.vfoot wading pool, the owners said.Milton P. Robcfoi of Kingsport is architect for the project, and Roger B. Hall of Bradenton, Fla., is general contractor.Robelot said the mote) and restaurant will be of brick and concrete Wotk construction, and the exterior design «ill be old brick with colored panels.Art Wiggins, general superintendent for the building firm, said general grading has hcert done, footings were being dug today, and Ihe foundation- will be poured as soon as weather permits. He also said it is expected that all subcontracts will be let before the end of next week.ms ^ architect Milton T. Uobelot’s conception of bow the Howard Johnson Mold and Kcstam year at the interchange of Stone Drive amlM.ynn Garden Drive. The motel is to have 11 1 units restaurant will scat m people, mailing It the second largest Howard Johnson operation in thetant wilt appear — fit finished byU.S.when completed early June— andthisthe
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Kingsport Times
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Fri, Jan 26, 1962
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