Dec. 20–SARASOTA — Plans are taking shape for a five-story hotel on Fruitville Road between Central and Cocoanut avenues.

The hotel will add another 118 rooms to the booming downtown and Rosemary districts that are experiencing unprecedented growth, with dozens of projects approved or already underway as the year ends.

The new hotel is being developed by Choice Hotels International, and will be considered by the city's Development Review Committee on Wednesday morning.

Although a specific brand for the location has not been announced, the Choice Hotels group includes Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Sleep Inn, Quality Inn, Clarion Hotel, MainStay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel, Econolodge and Rodeway Inn.

The project will include 59 street-level parking spaces with the building and rooms rising above, according to the plans submitted to the city.

The second floor will include the formal lobby and check-in area, several hotel rooms, meeting space, a fitness center and a pool, according to the plans. The remainder of the rooms would occupy floors three, four and five.

Drivers would access the hotel through an entry off Fruitville Road and to the alley north of the property, according to the plans.

The project details first came before the city in September, before being pulled and resubmitted by development consultant Joel Freedman, who is working on the project for Choice Hotels. Since October, Freedman has worked with staff to refine the plans and a traffic study is underway, city documents show.

The new Fruitville hotel will join another 701 hotel rooms proposed or under construction at sites across downtown, according to the city's latest downtown real estate report, issued Monday.

They include The Sarasota Modern at Cocoanut and Boulevard of the Arts, the Embassy Suites on North Tamiami Trail, Hotel Sarasota next to the Palm Avenue garage and the Westin that is part of the Vue development.

Combined they will nearly double the existing 802 hotel rooms downtown, according to the real estate report.

But they do not yet include the additional 175 hotel rooms that could result from the Quay Sarasota project or the 3,207 rental apartments, condominiums and town homes planned across nearly three dozen approved projects, according to the report.