Cantera land set aside for retail use

Warrenville city leaders approved a plan Monday that will usher in two hotels and thousands of new square feet of retail to one of the last swaths of untouched land in the Cantera development.

MaeCliff, a company owned by Hinsdale developer Tim Brugh, received the city council's blessing Monday to start work on a 15.2-acre parcel at Warrenville and Ferry roads.

The anchor to the site will be two five-story, 123-room hotels: a Hyatt Place Hotel and a Summerfield Suites Hotel, both of which should be open sometime next year.

Ronald Mentzer, the city's community development director, said Brugh hasn't yet begun marketing the more than 39,000 square feet of commercial space that will occupy the site alongside the hotels.

"The project is going to have some positive economic impacts for Warrenville," Mentzer said. "And the fact that the developer has been able to assemble several pieces of land that will raise the level of quality of what will be built there."

The property was assembled over the past year through individual parcels owned by Cantera, the city of Warrenville, an orthopedic medical group and the owners of a now-shuttered upholstery company.

Cantera, which straddles the Reagan Memorial Tollway, is already home to several hotels, corporate offices, restaurants, retail stores, two condominium complexes and a movie theater.