Printz Motel in Rehoboth renovated, now called Pines Suites
The longtime home of the Printz Motel in Rehoboth Beach has been renovated and renamed as the Pines Suites.
The months-long renovation of the structure, located on a triangle-shaped lot at the corner of Columbia Avenue and Sussex Street, took place through most of 2023. According to Sussex County property records, the commercially zoned property, which is a little less than half an acre, was sold to Baltimore-based 99 Sussex LLC for $1.3 million in 2021.
The decades-old, one-story, masonry-brick structure received a front-to-back renovation done by McGregor Homes. Owner Jim McGregor said the footprint was kept the same and the brick walls between the rooms remained, but the rooms were gutted and everything inside is brand new. The building was old and run-down, but it still had the feel of a small beach motel, he said.
Randy Preston did the renovation work for McGregor. There were about 12 dumpsters of junk removed, he said.
Preston said the two most notable changes were turning the front office into a handicap-accessible rental unit and adding a bit of scope to the other five rooms by raising the ceiling to the roof.
As part of the renovation, McGregor said, the owners commissioned local artist Michael Johnson to paint a mural facing the Columbia Avenue/Sussex Street intersection.
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, random stories on subjects he finds interesting and has a column called ‘Choppin’ Wood’ that runs every other week. Additionally, Chris moonlights as the company’s circulation manager, which primarily means fixing boxes during daylight hours that are jammed with coins, 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.
