Traffic signals are coming to Atherton Drive at Sparrow Hawk Street.

They are part of the requirement for the four-story, 122-room Woodspring Suites hotel before the Manteca Planning Commission on Thursday, June 6, at 6 p.m. during a meeting at the Civic Center, 1001 W. Center St.

 The intersection is to the east of Airport Way.

The driveway for the hotel will align with the existing Sparrow Hawk intersection.

And as future development occurs — the hotel on the southeast corner of the Airport Way and 120 Bypass interchange will be flanked by a proposed retail center and a new car dealership — traffic from those locations will also tie into the intersection.

The installation of traffic signals will occur later this year at Atherton Drive and Airport Way as well as Atherton Drive and Langum Way.

They are part of the Manteca Crossings retail project that broke ground earlier this month.

Traffic signals are also being required in connection with a bowling alley/family fun center plus a two-story banquet and events center the city has approved to the east of the Sparrow Hawk Street intersection.

The fourth set of signals that will serve what will be Manteca’s second bowling alley will be midway between Union Road and Airport Way on Atherton Drive.

The Woodspring project means within several years there will be a hotel on every quadrant of the 120 Bypass/Airport Way interchange with a combined total of 839 rooms.

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

The Staybridge and Woodspring 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 is now underway.

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, email dwyatt@mantecabulletin.com