There was nothing 18 years ago near the Airport Way and 120 Bypass interchange except corn fields and bare ground.

In the next few years, there will be a hotel on every quadrant of the interchange with a combined total of 829 rooms.

The 101-room, 4-story Staybridge Suites will open July 1 along Daniels Street on the northeast side of the interchange.

On Thursday, May 16, the Manteca Planning Commission will conduct a design review of plans for a 112-room, 4-story Woodspring Suites on Atherton Drive on the southeast side of the interchange.

Those two hotels are in addition to the 117-room, 4-story Courtyard by Marriott already approved on Atherton Drive on the southwest side of the interchange next to where the Manteca Crossing commercial center broke ground this week.

Those three hotels are in addition to the 500-room Great Wolf Lodge resort and indoor waterpark off of Daniels Street on the northwest side of the interchange.

Two decades ago, there were only three hotels catering to the traveling and vacationing public in all of Manteca with less than 300 rooms between them.

Between what is now in place, ready to open and proposed the city  is inching toward surpassing the 1,400 room mark.

The count does not include several smaller hotels that don’t cater to travelers per se.

Manteca boosts the largest hotel in the Great Central Valley from Redding to Bakersfield with 500 rooms.

To contact Dennis Wyatt@mantecabulletin.com