Four Points by Sheraton Bentonville to Open Soon

The finish line is finally in sight for Bentonville’s newest hotel on Southeast Walton Boulevard near Rainbow Curve.

Four Points by Sheraton Bentonville, formerly the Clarion Inn & Convention Center, has an official opening date of March 19, according to the website of its management company, Starwood Hotels.

Kunal Mody, a partner in the Little Rock-based Sree Akshar Inc. that owns the 105-room property, confirmed the opening, and added that the date could even be moved up a few weeks.

“We shall see about that, but we’re finally there,” he told Whispers. “The renovation is complete.”

Sree Akshar — which also owns a handful of hotels in the Little Rock/Jacksonville area, mostly Best Westerns and Comfort Inns — bought the Clarion and neighboring Sleep Inn in the spring of 2012 for $3.3 million, a deal that netted a combined 208 rooms and 10 acres.

The two properties were shuttered in September 2011. The Sleep Inn was re-branded as a Motel 6 and re-opened March 26, 2012.

The former Clarion has been in a state of renovation, seemingly, ever since.

Mody said Josh Morey (general manager) and Paige Smith (sales director) are leading the management team at the Four Points, which will also have a Joe’s Italian occupying the former Boston Pizza restaurant space attached to the hotel.

Mody was unsure when the restaurant would open.