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GV hotel tones down its colors

Workers paint the Quality Inn Express on Thursday, less than a year after it was painted in colors that raise eyebrows. Photo by Jaime Richardson | Green Valley News

By Jaime Richardson, www.gvnews.com
Published: Friday, October 2, 2009 11:00 PM MST


The orange, red and yellow Quality Inn Express at La Canada Drive and Esperanza Boulevard is getting a muted make-over, thanks to pressure from the Green Valley Community Coordinating Council.

Although the hotel has donned the bright color scheme for less than a year, the vibrant palette proved to be too spicy for some Green Valley residents, who said the building looked out of place in the community.

After members of the GVCCC’s Planning and Architectural Committee appealed to the Choice Hotel Corporation, which owns the Quality Inn franchise, officials ordered a repainting of the building in toned-down hues.

Hotel owner Abhilash Patel said it would be spring before he had the money to repaint. But Choice Hotels threatened to keep the Green Valley Quality Inn Express off its reservation system until it was repainted, according to the council.

Painters were hard at work last week splashing the stucco walls in shades of light yellow and off-white.

The 108-room hotel was painted last year around the same time Green Valley Village went from dull light pink to blocks of yellow, purple and terracota in an effort to rejuvenate the shopping center.


Patel did not return several calls seeking comment.



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BA wrote on Oct 3, 2009 8:36 AM:

" I’m ashamed that part of my HOA dues go to the GVCCC . A business owner puts fresh paint on his hotel and makes other improvements on behalf of tourists and guests in Green Valley and the GVCCC doesn’t like the color scheme. Rather than celebrate a business improvement (and the fact that another business isn’t down the tubes) they work against them to make them spend tens of thousands of dollars to repaint into a dull color. Kudos to Green Valley Village for bringing some color to our desert city. Kudos to the Quality Inn owners for trying to do the same. Shame on GVCCC for putting the screws to a business and working against the economy of Green Valley. Look around town. Maybe the GVCCC should worry more about the multitude of empty businesses and offices as well as those businesses that could use a fresh coat of paint because it’s peeling or looking neglected. "

Larry wrote on Oct 3, 2009 9:17 AM:

" About time, enough said. "

Big Tee wrote on Oct 3, 2009 12:08 PM:

" We need those nice, bright colors to keep this community looking 'alive'. Too bad so many of the Green Valley complainers chose to channel their energy into forcing the change to drab colors I feel bad that Mr. Patel has to use his money to satisfy these ridiculously conservative critics. "

Chuck Swanson wrote on Oct 3, 2009 5:07 PM:

" A bunch of FUDDY DUDDIES run this so-called town.

As soon as my leas is up, I am gone. I can say NOTHING GOOD about Green Valley, and don't.

. "

Joan wrote on Oct 4, 2009 6:08 AM:

" Being a lover of color, I thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful colors on the Quality Inn. Why must we in Green Valley be so limiting and limited? HOW DULL! "

Anita wrote on Oct 4, 2009 7:12 AM:

" Sorry folks, but enough color is enough. In the eyesore loudness of the motel colors, it should be toned down....a motel is for sleeping, not staying wide awake. There are enough "noisy" colors, the motel didn't need them too. Thanks Council for "quieting down" the heavy colors.... "

LYNN wrote on Oct 4, 2009 8:10 AM:

" I AGREE !!! "

Tammy Michael wrote on Oct 4, 2009 8:28 AM:

" The old people in Green Valley need to quite griping about things that make our comunity look good. Just because they are old and crusty does not mean our building need to be. That motel and the Green Valley Vilage mall are a bright spot in an otherwise dreary Green Valley. Yes and shame on the GVCCC for pressuring the owners to repaint when it had been done less than a year ago. Hmmm, and they wonder why people chose to go to Tucson. "

Therese wrote on Oct 4, 2009 9:03 AM:

" I understand about the investment the Quality Inn had to misapropriate. However, those colors were absolutely hedious! If only, the Quality Inn would do something about the Quality Inn in Nogales right smack in the middle of town! What a horrid color combination. Everytime I drive by the Quality Inn in Nogales I have to reach for my sunglasses! Therese "

Jim wrote on Oct 4, 2009 9:24 AM:

" I liked the colors, thought they brightened up the community a bit. What a shame a few whiners can force a business to paint their exterior. I suppose the new Legion on Esparanza will be next. Green Valley needs a little color, what a bland town. Everything is beige. How boring! "

Beth wrote on Oct 4, 2009 11:54 AM:

" I'm with BA - see comments above. What a terrible thing to make a business owner spend thousands of dollars in this economy. Are the colors too ethnic? Does everything have to be dull? I love the new colors in the Green Valley Village, and I think the hotel fits right in. It will serve the GVCCC right if the hotel goes out of business and sits there empty for years. Wake up people. This is a very sad thing. Shame on you. "

Lynn wrote on Oct 4, 2009 1:26 PM:

" The SUN would have faded the colors soon anyway. People have to gripe about SOMETHING. Now back to drab. "

kbc wrote on Oct 4, 2009 7:26 PM:

" It was nice to see the effort put in by the owner to spruce his business up. Am I to assume that the GVCC is also pressuring the rest of the Green Valley Businesses who used the same colors to repaint their properties or was Mr. Patel the only one they singled out. Somehow this matter seems beyond the realm of GVCC responsibilities!! I will think carefully about any support they want from me in the future. "

Pat wrote on Oct 4, 2009 9:00 PM:

" I like bright colors, but this hotel was just GARISH and UGLY - certainly no improvement! Way to go, GVCCC!!! "

Karen wrote on Oct 5, 2009 8:13 AM:

" I liked the colors. What a waste of money. Why doesn't anyone say anything abot that ugly Budget Car building and it's surroundings. "

Outraged wrote on Oct 5, 2009 10:28 AM:

" Please, in this economic enviroment to put such a extra burden on a small bus. owner should be a crime. We have a friend that is employed By
DR. Patel and the trickle down effect of lost reservations has effected their pay. Nice job GVCC Commando. And by the way GV News its the Quality Inn or the Holiday Inn Express, not some franchise you just made up "

sls wrote on Oct 5, 2009 12:47 PM:

" The colors were ugly. Even uglier than the mall (which is the mall no matter what some far-away marketer thinks). But GVCC was wrong to force a new paint job so soon unless someone in GV hates it enough to pay for it personally.
And it is not just old people who dislike the color. The loudest hoots I heard came from 20-somethings. "

Boots wrote on Oct 5, 2009 4:43 PM:

" I personally liked the color. What a shame and a waste of money to have to repaint this hotel. Dr. Patel pays taxes, and has kept his employees with jobs, when during the slow times, he could have easily laid them off. Unless the GVCC is paying his taxes and other bills, which I'm sure they are not, why is it their right to force a new paint job?? What a shame. "

Ronda wrote on Oct 5, 2009 4:55 PM:

" I was born and Raised here and I can-not believe that we are allowing a bunch of BACK EAST people to dictate what we do here!! SHAME ON GREEN VALLEY "

BorderColleen wrote on Oct 6, 2009 1:50 PM:

" Why are some of the buildings in the Green Valley Mall not painted to match the others recently painted? There are a number of them that are just natural stone color. Different owners? If not the remainder should be painted to that there is cohesion in the color scheme. "

Furious with GVCC wrote on Oct 6, 2009 9:40 PM:

" How shameful that the GVCC is allowed to dictate these kinds of issues. Why don't they worry about the lack of landscaping in most of our median strips - shame on you all!!! "

ed scott wrote on Oct 7, 2009 9:59 AM:

" I'd like to think of it as the GVCC stimulus package, kinda like our President's plan. GVCC spends other people's money, just because they can.

As the old saying goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. "

Robin Lowe wrote on Oct 7, 2009 2:29 PM:

" GVCC had no business interfering. What's next??? The Quality Inn was not breaking any laws - just trying to brighten up a drab building. Good for them. If you don't like the colors - don't look. Maybe someone doesn't like the color of your house so you should change it - at YOUR expense.
Get a life is right. What a bunch of old fuddy duddies in Green Valley. "

Avenger wrote on Oct 11, 2009 7:37 AM:

" To Ronda:
Well good for you - you were born and raised here. Probably one of a handful. I don't like the interference from the council, but let's be clear. Most of the people here are not from the East. They are from the midwest, CA, and other parts of AZ as far as I know. But that is not important. It is part of the same country and there would be no Green Valley if these people had not come here. "

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