West Ocean City Hotel Boom Continues With Planned Hampton Inn & Suites On Tap

SNOW HILL – An 81-room hotel is expected to replace the well-known West Ocean City building that formerly housed the Wheels of Yesterday museum.

The county’s technical review committee took a look this week at initial plans for a Hampton Inn & Suites set to be built where the Wheels of Yesterday museum currently sits. The museum, once filled with antique automobiles, has been closed since 2012 and the circa 1955 building is set to be demolished in the near future. Ocean II Group LLC is listed as the property’s owner.

“There’s nothing major in the comments that would preclude you from moving forward,” zoning administrator Jennifer Keener told representatives of the project Wednesday.

Keener, other county employees and a representative from Maryland’s State Highway Administration (SHA) met with architect Steve Engel of Vista Design to discuss plans for the new hotel. Keener reminded Engel the hotel would need to have access to neighboring properties and told him that the developer should make contact with the county’s emergency services department to make sure construction wouldn’t interfere with radio service.

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