She said Choice Hotels also serves as the corporate parent of six other properties in Waco - two Quality Inn and two Comfort Suites locations, a Roadway Inn and a Sleep Inn - and is trying to find those with reservations at the Clarion Hotel accommodations at these sites, if the customers are interested.

Salter said she has heard “a million things” about what the Clarion site may become, but nothing official.

Corey Duhon, a spokesman for DuWest Realty in Dallas, said by phone his agency will market the site for the ownership group.

“We really don’t have any immediate plans, but a property at that location demands something better than a Clarion Hotel,” he said.

He said “retail and restaurants” likely will find their way to that site, adding that the hotel definitely will be leveled.

The DuWest website says the company works with developers, owners and tenants “which have assisted us in leasing millions of square feet throughout the Southwest United States.” It goes on to say that DuWest is involved not only in leasing but in property management and disposition of assets.