WINGATE INN® HOTEL OPENS NEAR AUSTIN STRAUBEL INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN GREEN BAY (10/01)

JBJ Developers Inc. has opened the third franchised Wingate Inn hotel in Wisconsin, an 80-room hotel at the Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay. Located on 2065 Airport Drive, this three-story Wingate Inn hotel features four whirlpool suites, free guestroom high-speed Internet access via Ethernet card-equipped laptop computers, a 24-hour business center and a variety of other guest-friendly amenities.

"Industry is growing quickly both in and around Green Bay and we wanted to build the type of hotel that could fulfill the needs of the area's increasing number of business travelers," says Joe Neuser, partner in JBJ Developers. "The hotel's comfortable accommodations and business-related amenities should allow business travelers to continue working efficiently while away from the office. In addition, leisure travelers should benefit from our close proximity to the airport, Lambeau Field and attractions in the Green Bay area. We feel that our property should be a great asset to this growing community."

"We're very excited about the opening of this hotel as it gives the brand presence in Green Bay and at Austin Straubel International Airport, a busy airport for business travelers," says Keith J. Pierce, president and CEO of Wingate Inns International, Inc. "The Green Bay area, particularly near the airport, features numerous high tech companies and expanding business parks, making it perfect for a high tech Wingate Inn hotel."

As a part of the Wingate Inn chain, this franchised Wingate Inn hotel features high-speed Internet access connections in every guestroom, as well as in the meeting room and boardroom. Guests with a standard Ethernet card and RJ45 connector can enjoy free access to the Internet from guestrooms at speeds up to 50 times faster than conventional 56K modems. Meeting room and boardroom high-speed Internet access is rentable on a half-day and full day basis.

The hotel also features standard amenities such as express, automated check-in and check-out, as well as in-room cordless phones and two-line desk phones with dataport, speaker, conference call and voice mail capabilities. Wingate Inn hotels also offer meeting rooms, 24-hour access to a business center with free usage of fax, printing and copying equipment, and wireless phones that can be checked out from the front desk and used anywhere within the hotel for both incoming and outgoing calls.

Although focused on providing efficient working conditions for the business traveler, Wingate Inn hotels also provide amenities for leisure travelers such as an in-room entertainment system featuring pay-per-view movies and Nintendo 64 games. Guests can also benefit from larger-than-average guestrooms (12' x 28'), an expanded continental breakfast, a whirlpool, exercise facilities, free accommodations for children 17 and under accompanied by adults, the Wingate Inn 100% gest satisfaction guarantee and in-room safes, coffee makers, hair dryers, microwave ovens, refrigerators and ironing boards with irons. Room rates at the Wingate Inn hotel in Green Bay start at $85 and suite rates begin at $150.

Wingate Inns is an all-new construction hotel chain that opened its first franchised hotel in July 1996. Its focused service, upper mid-market franchised hotels feature sophisticated, consumer-based technology and comfortable, oversized rooms that were created in response to business travelers' needs. All Wingate Inn hotels are independently owned and operated under Franchise agreements with Wingate Inns International, Inc.