A proposed hotel planned on the property that had been Jimmy’s Gym in Franklin Township has been awarded extra time.

Supervisors in a 2-0 vote Tuesday approved the letter of request from Eagle Hospitality LLC to grant a 60-day extension for the new hotel facility, expiration date of May 31, to be extended to July 30.

Supervisor Leroy Kemmerer Jr. was absent.

That came after the board in February accepted a 90-day extension in regard to the preliminary/final land development plans for the proposed new hotel facility.

In January, the Carbon County Planning Commission recommended conditional plan approval with the condition that if the comments outlined aren’t adequately mitigated before the preliminary/final plan approval, then the county’s recommendation changes to plan rejection of the project.

The plans, which were updated and resubmitted to the commission, include constructing a 17,225-square-foot, four-story, 97-room hotel that would become a TownePlace Suites by Marriott.

County planner Ivan O. Meixell Jr., said that the plans that were submitted to the commission in May were for three stories.

Meixell said that property lines and distance discrepancies that exist between the recorded map of the property and the plan are fixed.

In addition, he said an erosion and sediment pollution control plan must be provided and approved by the Carbon County Conservation District.

Also, Meixell said an approved Department of Environmental Protection permit for stormwater discharge is required.

Other items he said must be addressed are a drainage/stormwater management plan meeting the requirements of Franklin Township’s ordinance and adequate and reliable water sources to be outlined and reviewed by Franklin Township and the township fire chief.

Interchange Investment Group LLC of Bethlehem purchased the 9-acre property at 1055 Interchange Road in 2019 for $1.1 million.

In 2020, the investor outlined its plans for constructing another hotel along that stretch of road.

There are currently two within a one-mile radius of that section that is just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike exit.