The Clarendon Hotel

The City of St. Clairsville, Ohio purchased the Clarendon Hotel in 2001 for redevelopment purposes. To that end, the City created the St. Clairsville Community Improvement Corporation, The Clarendon, LLC, and Clarendon Hospitality, Inc. The Clarendon, LLC now owns the building. Clarendon Hospitality was created to operate the hotel portion of the building. Built in 1890, it is one of the oldest continuously operating hotels on the National Road, which is also a National Scenic Byway.

There will be two restaurants in the building. One will be a breakfast/lunch diner option that has consistently operated since 1929 in a nearby city. This will constitute an expansion, with the current operation remaining in place. The hotel restaurant will be an 82-seat operation that will be an upper-mid-level restaurant along the lines of a Brio or Bravo Italian Restaurant, neither of which exist in this markets.

The 15,000 S.F. Romanesque Revival building is located within a restored National Historic District. The St. Clairsville area is the retail center of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hotel occupancy here exceeds the national average. Considerable public sector financial assistance in the form of grants has been attained to make a hotel viable. The community's vision is to create a boutique hotel of 16 rooms and 3 suites, an 82-seat restaurant and 40-seat diner.

The property is located on the Courthouse Plaza. Over 12,000 vehicles per day pass the property and I-70's 50,000 VPD are one mile away. Local hotel and restaurant industry sales surpass national averages.