Franklin Staybridge Suites to break ground

A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Friday to celebrate the start of construction of a Staybridge Suites hotel at the southwest corner of South 27th Street and Ryan Road in Franklin. The $10 million, five-story hotel will have 114 rooms. It is being developed by Park Ridge, Ill.-based The Bricton Group Inc. It will be the first chain hotel in Franklin and is the third Staybridge Suites planned in southeastern Wisconsin. One is under construction in downtown Milwaukee, and the third is being planned for the Pabst Farms development in Oconomowoc. Staybridge Suites is an extended-stay hotel concept owned by Windsor, U.K.-based InterContinental Hotels Group.