The Marriott Hotel company is coming to Coeur d'Alene.

Parkwood Business Properties of Coeur d'Alene and KVC Development of Spokane are combining on a 118-guestroom SpringHill Suites hotel to be built on three and a half acres just east of Parkwood's Holiday Inn Express Hotel at 2250 W. Seltice Way. The property is just west of the Seltice Way-Northwest Boulevard intersection and above the Riverstone development.

With construction to start this summer and be complete next spring, the 70,000-square-foot, four-story hotel will include 118 suites of king- and queen-size beds, an indoor pool with a children's play feature, a jacuzzi and two patios, one with a splash pad and one with two gas firepits, overhead heaters and a built-in barbecue. A three-hole putting green will be beside one patio behind the hotel.

According to the building permit, the hotel's value is $7 million.

Similar to the new SpringHill Suites hotel in Wenatchee, Wash., the Coeur d'Alene hotel will offer a free breakfast buffet, business and fitness centers and a 24-hour market room. The rooms will peek through mature trees above Riverstone to the Spokane River. The parking area will have four outlets for electric cars.

"This building will be built to high energy-efficient standards employing green technologies," said Julie Brown of KVC Development of the Kent Clausen family in Spokane.

With its headquarters in Bethesda, Md., the Marriott company has more than 3,700 properties in 72 countries and territories. Some of the Marriott's 18 brandnames include Ritz-Carlton, Courtyard and Renaissance Inn. The nearest SpringHill Suites is in Wenatchee with other regional hotels in Seattle, Boise, Portland and Billings. The Coeur d'Alene hotel will not include a restaurant or lounge and will employ about 30 people.

Marriott formerly had the Fairfield Inn in Coeur d'Alene, but it is now a Comfort Inn. Check www.marriott.com and click to the SpringHill Suites site in Wenatchee to see the Coeur d'Alene prototype. The construction company has not been chosen.