| July 29, 2005 --- Lansing, MI. - JLC Hospitality
Consulting Inc, a Rochester MN-based hotel research and consulting firm
will open an office in DeWitt, Michigan, effective August 1, according
to Jeff Coy, its president and founder.
In fact Michigan has five hotel waterpark resorts open & operating, 3 under construction and 3 in the pipeline, according to recent e-newsletter, Michigan Tourism Business. Michigan is among the top three states in the growth of hotel waterpark resorts. "By opening an office in the Lansing area, we are just following the natural growth of this new lodging-entertainment product as it spreads from Minnesota and Wisconsin to Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York." The firm�s new address is 8256 Francis Road, DeWitt, Michigan 48820 --- part of 276 acres of woods and farmland. In early 2001, Jeff Coy, a Michigan State graduate, teamed up with attractions consultant Bill Haralson of Dallas to gather and report industry data on the hotel waterpark resort concept that originated in Wisconsin Dells WI and started to grow rapidly nationwide. The company�s recent feasibility projects include: (1) Wasserbaun Resort, an 11,000 sf holidome conversion at Holiday Inn Amana Colonies in Iowa; (2) Mountain Grand Hotel and its 83,000 sf Avalanche Bay indoor waterpark, which opened May 2005 at Boyne Mountain Ski Resort in northwest Michigan; (3) Grand Bear Lodge, which opened at Starved Rock in Utica, Illinois; and (4) Fort Rapids Waterpark Resort, which is under construction at the Holiday Inn in Columbus, Ohio.
The hotel-waterpark concept also is spreading west, especially in the Pacific Northwest. Later in September, Coy plans to announce the opening of an Arizona office to better service resort developers in the western region. |
"We
decided we wanted to be closer to our current customers and potential developers
to better provide development services and on-going management and market
support," declared Coy, who in the last few years has become a leading
authority on indoor waterparks as part of hotels and resorts.
