A planned hotel tagged for the former Jimmy’s Gym in Franklin Township is another step closer to fruition.

Township supervisors on a 2-0 vote Tuesday granted final approval of the following waivers for Eagle Hospitality LLC/TownePlace Suites preliminary/final land development.

• Access drives and landscaping are to be defined with concrete curbing, or such alternate material as may be approved by the township.

• One planting island is to be provided for every 10 parking stalls.

• Stormwater basin surface discharge.

Supervisor Leroy Kemmerer Jr. was absent.

The board’s action comes after it unanimously granted conditional approval last month for a lot line revision and minor subdivision plan for Eagle Hospitality LLC.

Plans call for a 17,225-square-foot, 97-room hotel that would become a TownePlace Suites by Marriott.

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 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. An erosion and sediment pollution control plan had to be approved by the Carbon County Conservation District.

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

There are currently two hotels within 1-mile radius of that section just off the Pennsylvania Turnpike exit.