The Northpark La Quinta Inn & Suites is the first of three company-owned properties scheduled to open in Dallas and San Antonio by spring 2002.  Expanding at a rapid rate, La Quinta owns nearly 100 properties in its home state of Texas and has more sleeping rooms in Texas than any other hotel brand.  The Dallas/Fort Worth area alone offers 13 La Quinta Inns and seven La Quinta Inn & Suites properties, including the D/FW Airport South hotel prototype scheduled to open in early 2002.

"The opening of our Northpark property is a prime example of La Quinta's ability to continually grow and improve the guest experience," said Butch Cash, president and chief executive officer for La Quinta Inns, Inc.  "Whether traveling for business or pleasure, our new property gives travelers to the D/FW area another opportunity to experience friendly service and clean, comfortable accommodations they've come to expect from La Quinta."
    
La Quinta Inn & Suites Northpark offers a number of enhanced amenities that are unique to the new property.  Guests can enjoy larger 27-inch televisions and ergonomic desks with convenient built-in dataport access.
    
La Quinta's contemporary guest rooms offer popular amenities, including movies-on-demand, Nintendo(R) video games, dataport phones with voicemail, in-room irons, ironing boards and hair dryers as well as coffee makers.  A choice of room types, meeting space, complimentary USA Today newspapers, and free continental breakfast add to the list of amenities available at La Quinta Inn & Suites. 
    
Dallas-based La Quinta Inns, Inc. is owned by The La Quinta Companies
(NYSE: LQI).  La Quinta, a mid-scale limited-service lodging company, owns, operates or franchises 228 Inns and 74 Inn & Suites in 30 states and has approximately 8,000 employees.