Wauwatosa Residence Inn opening Tuesday

A long-delayed hotel at the Innovation Campus development in Wauwatosa will open on Tuesday.

The 127-room Residence Inn Milwaukee West is at 1300 Discovery Parkway, north of W. Watertown Plank Road and east of U.S. Highway 45. The all-suite hotel will operate as a Marriott franchise, owned and managed by Hospitality Specialists Inc., of Grand Rapids, Mich., the firm announced Thursday.

Construction started in May 2015. The $8 million project's construction start was delayed for more than a year to allow excess soil from grading work done at Innovation Campus to properly settle.

Innovation Campus, developed by a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Foundation affiliate, includes Echelon Apartments, ABB Inc.'s area headquarters and a business accelerator operated by UWM.

The extended-stay hotel is the first of three new Residence Inns that are being developed in the Milwaukee area.

An 83-room Residence Inn is under construction in Glendale at 7003 N. Port Washington Road and is scheduled to open in March. Also, the Brookfield Common Council in July approved plans to develop a 99-room Residence Inn, on the northwest portion of Pinehurst Court, next to Brookfield Hills Golf Course.

The Glendale hotel is replacing a former Residence Inn, at 7245 N. Port Washington Road, that was converted into apartments. The Brookfield hotel will replace a Residence Inn, 950 Pinehurst Court, that also will be converted into apartments.