With plans to eventually change Plainsboro’s Wyndham Hotel into a Crowne Plaza franchise, the new ownership of the 870 Scudders Mill Road facility will first divide the location into two separate operations: Holiday Inn Express and the current Wyndham.
Plainsboro’s planning board will meet on Tuesday, September 18, at 7:30 p.m. and discuss a minor site plan application for signage for the new Holiday Inn Express. The applicant, Princeton Three Hospitality Group LLC, will try to secure new directional and internal signage for Holiday Inn Express, which will sit in the portion of the Wyndham closest to the Novo Nordisk building at 800 Scudders Mill Road.
According to Lester Varga, Plainsboro’s director of planning and zoning, the signage is the first step in the overall transition.
“What they are seeking is little bit above and beyond the sign regulations the township already had in place for the location,” Varga said.
Varga added that one Holiday Inn sign with a directional arrow for a right turn will be placed on Scudders Mill Road, close to the entrance driveway that serves Novo Nordisk’s North American headquarters.
“It will be a stone-based metal sign for Holiday Inn Express, and the sign package will be in keeping with the area — high quality, pristine, and purposeful,” he said.
In July of 2011 USBank sold the 364-room Wyndham hotel to InnZen Hospitality, a Monmouth Junction hotel owner and operator whose CEO is Sunil Nayak of South Brunswick. According to Commercial Real Estate News, Nayak’s management team plans to re-brand the Wyndham as a Crowne Plaza hotel.
Varga said that when the application for the Crowne Plaza comes before Plainsboro’s Planning Board (possibly later this year) additional signage along Scudders Mill Road will be discussed.
