Local group building new interstate hotel in Triad

A Triad-based company has started work on a new local hotel estimated to cost $8.5 million.

BPR Properties of High Point is developing and building a 109-room Homewood Suites at 6011 Landmark Center Blvd. in Greensboro, just southwest of the Wendover Avenue interchange with Interstate 40.

Bhupen Patel, CEO of BPR, confirmed to Triad Business Journal that the company in October broke ground for the hotel, estimated on the building permit to be 86,238 square feet. BPR’s Patel Construction Group is…