Olson will provide pre-construction and general contracting services for the Holiday Inn Express at a project cost of $5.2 million. The new facility will replace an existing hotel, which will be demolished. The Holiday Inn Express will cater to tourists and business people visiting the nearby technology district. It will sit upon a 160,000-square-foot property owned by Ocean Park Hotels.

“We have an excellent reputation within the hospitality industry, which has resulted in an increase in the number of projects we have built this year that are outside of our Orange County home base,” said Dennis Reyling, president, R. D. Olson Construction.

PK Architects of Scottsdale, AZ. designed the two-story hotel using a California mission-style theme. The 60,000-square-foot facility includes 118 suites, each with a kitchenette, two meeting rooms, and a conference room, fitness center and pool.