{"id":257185,"date":"2017-07-28T06:12:18","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=257185"},"modified":"2017-07-28T06:12:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T20:12:18","slug":"company-woos-zoning-build-144-3m-tanapag-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/company-woos-zoning-build-144-3m-tanapag-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Company woos Zoning to build $144.3M Tanapag hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_257188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-257188\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Saipan-Garden-pix.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-257188\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Saipan-Garden-pix-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"An artist\u2019s rendition of the proposed Saipan Garden Hotel in Tanapag. (Ferdie de la Torre)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-257188\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-257188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An artist\u2019s rendition of the proposed Saipan Garden Hotel in Tanapag. (Ferdie de la Torre)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A company that is planning to renovate the former Magellan Hotel is applying with the Commonwealth Zoning Office for a conditional use permit for a cluster hotel in Tanapag that will reportedly cost $144.3 million to build.<\/p>\n<p>American Sinopan LLC general manager Guo Hua Pan said the 1,184-room hotel, Saipan Garden Resort, will consist of 10 six-story hotel buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The Zoning board will hold a public hearing on American Sinopan\u2019s application at the Pedro P. Tenorio Multi-Purpose Center in Susupe on Aug. 9 at 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed site is the 100,000-square-meter private land between Travel Lane and Lissif Lane across Tanapag Elementary School. The area is zoned as rural. <\/p>\n<p>Henry K. Pangelinan is listed as the local designer and authorized representative.<\/p>\n<p>American Sinopan chief executive officer Ken Lin said in an interview yesterday that the six-story hotel buildings won\u2019t be skyscraper high.<\/p>\n<p>To save time, Lin said, all the design materials will be pre-fabricated in Asia and brought here.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe material itself is typhoon-, fire-, termite-, and earthquake-proof,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it is much easier in terms of labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The target opening of the project is by the end of 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Lin said that construction will be in three phases.<\/p>\n<p>He said that, based on the Marianas Visitors Authority\u2019s data, what is needed on Saipan right now are young couples, families, and teenagers who want to explore.<\/p>\n<p>He said these kind of tourists will be their target clients.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company\u2019s application, the resort includes a main lobby and administrative building, two restaurants, two hotel dining buildings, two apartment buildings with one clubhouse facility, two staff housing with one cafeteria, three swimming pools, parking, landscaping, site lighting, and water, sewer and power infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Zoning board recently approved with some conditions American SinoPan\u2019s proposed $350,000 renovation of the two-story 12-room former Magellan Hotel on Wireless Ridge on Capital Hill, Saipan. The company renamed it Heaven II Hotel II. <\/p>\n<p>American SinoPan\u2019s mother company owns a golf course and three hotels in China. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company that is planning to renovate the former Magellan Hotel is applying with the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":257188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[17758,17759,17684,17685],"class_list":["post-257185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-american-sinopan","tag-guo-hua-pan","tag-magellan-hotel","tag-saipan-garden-resort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}