The Generation Companies Opens Suburban Lodge in Hampton, Virginia, Company Adds Regional Sales Manager and Training Director / May 2000

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The Generation Companies Opens Suburban Lodge
in Hampton, Virginia,
Company Adds Regional Sales Manager and Training Director

May 9, 2000 - The Generation Companies of Chapel Hill, a developer and manager of extended-stay hotels in North Carolina, Virginia and Kentucky, is opening its newest Suburban Lodge extended-stay hotel in Hampton, Virginia in mid-May. The economy-priced 141-room extended-stay hotel offers rates of $49 per night and $159 per week. Part of the largest economy extended-stay hotel company in the country with more than 140 hotels open or under development in 20 states, Suburban Lodge boasts a customer satisfaction rating of 99%.

The hotel will accommodate guests traveling for periods of a week or more in rooms equipped with a complete kitchen, including microwave, refrigerator, stove-top, coffee maker, cookware and utensils; telephone with voice mail and dataport; cable television featuring HBO, CNN and ESPN; weekly housekeeping service and on-site laundry.

Jacquelyn Clark-Johnson joins Chapel Hill�s The Generation Companies, as Director of Training and Quality Improvement.

Clark-Johnson will develop and implement training materials and programs for the company�s hotel properties, everything from housekeeping protocols to management seminars. She�ll also devise, distribute and assess guidelines to standardize service, hotel and room appearance and customer interactions throughout the three-state region.

Before joining The Generation Companies, Greensboro native Clark-Johnson oversaw the operations of six hotel properties in Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Fayetteville and Wilmington as District Manager of Operations with StudioPlus Hotels, Inc. Her responsibilities included recruiting, training and developing property management personnel as well as guest relations, employee motivation programs and new property start-ups.

Mrs. Dare H. Nantz of Greensboro brings more than 25 years of sales, marketing and management experience to her new position of regional sales manager for Chapel Hill�s The Generation Companies.

Mrs. Nantz will travel to the company�s properties to train sales directors in generating new accounts, maintaining existing business, advertising and marketing and managing bookings. Mrs. Nantz honed her expertise as Director of Sales and Food and Beverage Director for 5 Star properties in the Atlanta area.

The Generation Companies has more than $85 million in real estate assets under management and employs 115 people in the three-state region. The company currently operates eight properties; five more are under construction and slated for completion in the six few months.

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Contact:
Ron Jacobsen
Generation Companies
Chapel Hill, NC
919.932.3331
[email protected]
http://www.generationcompanies.com/main.html

Also See:	The Generation Companies Family Tradition Continues with Opening of 75th Candlewood Suites in Richmond / Oct 1999
	ISuburban Lodges of America, Inc. Completes Acquisition of 45 Franchised GuestHouse Hotels / June 1999

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