Hampton Inn Renamed Dearborn West Village Inn

Plans to build a Sonic burger at the corner of Michigan and Telegraph by summer’s end likely will not happen this year, according to the city’s economic development department.

It appears there are a collection of reasons Sonic will not go into the site this year. One condition was that the vacant Dearborn Theater (aka Showcase Cinema) had to be razed to give the Sonic site more visibility.

The theater has since been razed and cleanup is nearly complete but it apparently wasn’t fast enough. The Sonic project is now on the bubble, which might not be all bad for Dearborn. Perhaps another fast food establishment on a prime piece of real estate isn’t the right thing for Dearborn.

On the site of the now demolished theater, a new Hampton Inn motel still is expected to be built. Developer Ned Hakim, who has his hands full getting his Holiday Inn Express readied for travelers just west of the vacant site, is the developer for the proposed Hampton Inn.

As we have written here several times, the current Hampton Inn, just east of Brady on Michigan Avenue, was forced to make a name chance because the motel’s owner did not want to make the necessary remodeling changes to keep the  Hampton Inn franchise license.

So the Hampton Inn has now been renamed the Dearborn West Village Inn.