This 151 room Holiday Inn full-service hotel currently under construction is directly across thestreet from the Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and is due to be completed and operating by late summer of 2008. The Coliseum, a world class facility with nearly 1,000,000 square feet under roof, is one of the major event facilities in the nation. Complete with banquet and conference facilities, the hotel, which is also adjacent to the campus of Indiana Purdue Fort Wayne University (the principal educational institution of Northeast Indiana), is equipped to meet the needs of families, educators and service providers associated with the educational institution and its 12,000 students.