Unified Aircraft Services, a Rialto-based development firm, is discussing the sale of 3.75 acres at the southeast corner of Meridian Avenue and C Street with the city's redevelopment agency. The land would be large enough for an 80- to 100-room Holiday Inn Express or a similar franchise and two stand-alone restaurants.

Although the restaurants have not been determined, the developer said they would be chain restaurants like a Coco's or Marie Callender's Restaurant Bakery.

The proposed site would be adjacent to the planned Field of Dreams sports park and near Arrowhead Regional Medical Center.

"Because of it's proximity to hospital, freeway and sports complex, this is a good site for us," said Kenzo Hachtmann, project manager for Unified Aircraft Services.

The hotel and restaurants could be open by next December if Unified and the city can come to terms on the property and get through the permitting process in the next three months, Hachtmann said. That's a realistic time frame, said Greg Lantz, Colton redevelopment project manager, but he said the city will have to determine whether there will be enough parking for the restaurants, hotel and sports complex. It must also study the impact the development will have on adjacent streets.

The Delhi Sands flowering-loving fly, an endangered species that has hampered development in the area is not expected to threaten the project because it is being built on developed land, Lantz said.

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