hello everyone and good morning thank you for coming today on what's proving to be a significant and happy and important day for the city of holland on behalf of suburban ends my name is tim parenting and i welcome you all here we're going to have a very brief program i'm going to call up one at a time a few people to make remarks including peter and brian you come out of suburban ends also mayor kirk dykstra and gwen our now from the two of time festival first of all i'd like to welcome peter a quick brief history is projects a little bittersweet for us a because i live here in town and then we've been in the hotel business and in the greater holland area since ninety seven when my parents founded hundred seventy nine so it's been over thirty five years this year and we're really really excited about this project i'm excited about this project because it's bringing the nationally branded property into downtown holland this property tract of all fifty thousand new people into downtown every year it'll provide about one hundred jobs for the community and it'll  sports grill related foods but a focus on michigan beers especially about craft beers in general and the signature courtyard by marriott b stroll which will do breakfast think of all the parties involved first off marriage dykstra without your help support in the city commissions blessing we wouldn't be here today planning commission at the city level also city staff they've been great to work with to time celebrated eighty five years of success rumor has it that the mayor may be finding his second calling today of a bulldozer operator and soon here will celebrate another one with the groundbreaking of our office property at the korea by mary at down town hall and then will have time for questions after all the speakers have been up at the podium so hold tight for that i also want to acknowledge brant over there behind his parents he's a partner in the business and heads up the agriculture division right now so he's here today to you they all thank you you can be brothers here and family here it's really a wonderful day in downtown holland really for the greater holland community it was probably close to two years ago pete that you and i had a conversation and  i mentioned not that you hadn't thought of it before but it was sort of the first time that pete and i had had a discussion about the potential for a hotel property on this particular site you know i'm not in this business at all and and i don't know up from down in the world of hotels but my sense was as a true layperson in the idea that we have tremendous opportunity tremendous traffic in downtown holland and i thought the opportunity for a more national kind of brand to complement the existing propert think about it i think it's or maybe confirm some ideas that he had given some thought through as well would downtown be another great spot for one of the suburban properties fast forward to today and here we are and i just think that this is going to be a tremendously successful and a tremendous property and a tremendously good asset for our community our of you know we see the splash pad literally splashing right about now and many times during summer summer days you will see many families enjoying that great area and with the addition of some of the additional restaurants and some of the additional things happening in this part of the downtown area this is such a key and important site for our community and for the downtown and i can't think of a better use for this property i can't think of a better partner to have and company to develop this property and really i can't think of a better design than what we're seeing here for this property so we all look forward to having this this complete and open in fact that's the biggest question i've been getting of late is not when does it start because everyone knows it's coming what are you going to be open when are you going to be open so we look forward to that day when we can cut the ribbon and welcome everyone inside but until then thank you congratulations and we'll look forward to watching the progress as it happen thank you mayor dykstra our final remarks this morning are from glen our executive director of two a time festival which everybody knows she is not eighty five she did not sound to look time just want to make that clarification but she was telling me before hand that the development of this hotel downtown will have a significant benefit for to a time as well so here to talk more about that is thank you so much and congratulations to suburban and in the family and pete who has been on our board for the last nine years and it's been just a delight to work with him and the property as well so for t is really significant we get so many guests who say to us we just want to come downtown and stay and not have to drive because we know how challenging it can be during the festival to get around in so to have one more property with as many rooms and looking on  street the parade route i think is going to be really a benefit to us and our guests and and obviously a benefit to suburban and so we're just pleased and thrilled to be here and celebrate this my mental monumental moment with them today so thank you ok if there are any questions anybody has right now we have a few minutes to do that before we take some spectacular photos behind us this can be from the media or any member of the public in the community here today and questions for any of our speakers well you just like the college classes i teach now right now after a draw going to mob us probably let me turn our attention behind us that we're going to take a series of photos including what you've already heard the mayor on a bulldozer and also the obligatory photos of key dignitaries with the shovels and hard hats right behind us so anyone with cameras that wants to get those photos can move back here and the rest of you there will be refreshments behind you in the tents in a short while thank you again on behalf of suburban ends for coming to