If you've driven on 840 recently heading towards New Hartford you may have noticed the concrete pillars that have popped up in the area of The Hampton Inn & Suites. Those towers represent what's going right about our area. Those pillars are the stairway shaft and elevator shaft for another flagship hotel chain being built right behind the existing one.

A call to The Hampton Inn & Suites as to what the massive structures were confirmed the construction on a new hotel opening soon. Who knew that the first thing to be built in a hotel were the stair and elevator shafts. Similar towers are popping up all around that area and that can only be attributed to the continued vision of growth in not only the businesses in our area, but population and jobs. Let's hope we continue to see these structures and more like it.


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