Heritage Inn & Suites to become Staybridge Suites
After more than two decades on Route 1 at the midway point between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach, the Heritage Inn & Suites will soon become Staybridge Suites.
The Heritage Inn’s Facebook page announced the change to Staybridge Suites, which is an extended-stay hotel part of the IHG company. Renovation work has been underway for some time. The announcement says the renovated hotel is scheduled to reopen in 2024.
The Heritage Inn opened in 2000. At the time, a nine-hole golf course on the other side of Postal Lane was part of the operation. The golf course was sold in 2014 and became American Classic Golf Club.
H&R Hospitality owns the property. It also owns The Inn at Lewes, which is located just up the road on Route 1 and was known as the Driftwood Motel for decades.
Chris Flood has been working for the Cape Gazette since early 2014. He currently covers Rehoboth Beach and Henlopen Acres, but has also covered Dewey Beach and the state government. He covers environmental stories, business stories and random stories on subjects he finds interesting, and he also writes a column called Choppin’ Wood that runs every other week. Additionally, Flood moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes that are jammed with coins during daylight hours, but sometimes means delivering papers in the middle of the night. He’s a graduate of the University of Maine and the Landing School of Boat Building & Design.
