With issues ironed out with the Town of Pendleton over the placement of a driveway to South Transit Road, local hotelier Ramesh Patel brought his plan for a 77-room Holiday ...

PENDLETON — A Tri-Cities hotelier is readying development on a new Holiday Inn in Pendleton, with an exact location to be determined.

The development team behind Hampton Inn hotels in Niagara Falls and Pendleton is now poised to build a four-story Holiday Inn Express near the Niagara County/Erie County line.

Omkara Hotel LLC, a hospitality investment group headed by area businessman Ramesh Patel, hopes to build a 77-room Holiday Inn Express on a vacant parcel at 6900 Transit Road in Pendleton.

The Niagara County Industrial Development Agency on Wednesday approved a 10-year tax break for a Holiday Inn Express project at the corner of South Transit Road and Tonawanda Creek Road North in ...