ANN ARBOR, MI - A new Holiday Inn Express and Suites with 114 hotel rooms is coming to Ann Arbor.

The development planned for 3853 Research Park Drive includes demolishing a 24,900-square-foot office building and constructing a four-story, 64,518-square-foot hotel in its place.

It will add to a growing number of hotels along the South State Street corridor, including another Holiday Inn Express just up the street.

The City Council approved the new hotel Monday night, June 19, in a 9-0 vote with Jason Frenzel and Graydon Krapohl absent.

The 2.3-acre site is located along the east side of South State Street, south of I-94, and along the north side of Research Park Drive.

The building being demolished dates back to the 1960s when the research park was platted.

Farmington Hills-based Stellar Ann Arbor 3 LLC purchased the property for $2.45 million last October and sought approval for the project, working with Bud Design and Engineering Services in Grand Blanc and The Think Shop Architects in Brighton.

The project is expected to be constructed in one phase with the total estimated construction cost being $5 million.

Access to the site will be provided through a driveway off Research Park Drive leading to 114 parking spaces.

Connections to the hotel are planned from the existing sidewalk along State Street and with interior sidewalk connections from the parking lot. Four bicycle parking spaces are planned inside the hotel.

Stormwater detention to handle a 100-year storm will be provided underground on the southeast corner of the parking lot.

The city has seen a number of new hotel proposals come forward in recent years. The new Holiday Inn Express will be just north of a newly built Staybridge Suites that was approved by the City Council in 2015, and it will be down the street from a newly built Hyatt Place hotel that also was approved in 2015.

Another new hotel with 131 rooms is planned as part of a mixed-use development on a city-owned lot known as the Library Lot just north of the downtown library, and yet another new hotel called The Glen is planned for a vacant site along Glen Avenue between Catherine and Ann.

A site plan for The Glen was submitted to the city in March 2016 and remains under review. It could go to the Planning Commission soon, followed by City Council consideration.