The opening of Tru by Hilton later this year on Northwoods Avenue will give Manteca 1,020 hotel rooms.

The four-story Tru by Hilton hotel valued at $9 million will feature a game room, an exercise room, a laundry room, a business area, public restrooms, and an outside patio. It will have 79 parking stalls.

The 39,573-square-foot structure will employ a modern architectural design with features unique to Tru by Hilton. It is  immediately to the north of the 58-room Motel 6 that is next door to Chick-Fill-A

Not only does the vicinity of the Yosemite Avenue and Highway 99 interchange where Tru by Hilton is being built have the city’s highest concentration of hotels, but that also holds true for dining options and fueling stations.

There are 29 fast food, casual dining, restaurants and beverage places (coffee, juice drinks and such.) The area also has five gas stations and a Tesla supercharger station.

The interchange is on heavily traveled Highway 99 and East Highway 120 that connects with the Sierra and Yosemite National Park. That makes it a natural stop for tourists to stay the night or for those heading to and from the Bay Area to reach Sierra destinations to stop for food and fuel.

When Great Wolf opened it more than doubled the hotel rooms in Manteca to 948. The 500-room hotel attached to an indoor waterpark resort is also the largest hotel in the Great Central Valley stretching from Bakersfield to Redding.

Two more hotel projects on the table could increase that number by almost 40 percent to 1,377 rooms.

The city has approved plans for a four-story, 101 room Staybridge Suites on the southeast corner of Daniels Street and Fishback Avenue near the 120 Bypass and Airport Way interchange.

Great Wolf is also in talks with the city about a 250-room expansion.

If the Staybridge Suites and Great Wolf expansion are built Manteca would have eight hotels with 1,377 rooms excluding those on Moffat Boulevard and on West Yosemite Avenue near Union Road.

That compares to Stockton — a city almost 3½ times larger than Manteca with 310,000 people — that visitstockton.org indicates has more than 2,000 hotel rooms.

If the Great Wolf expansion takes place 750 of those rooms, or more than half, with be tied to the destination resort market. The rest are aimed at the traveling public.

 To contact Dennis Wyatt, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com