By Mike Stimpson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter FORT FRANCES – The foundation is in for a new hotel in Fort Frances that will open next summer, says the chief executive officer of the company building the hotel. Completion of the Studio 6 hotel project at 1108 Kings Highway (near Walmart and Canadian Tire) is scheduled for around Aug. 15, 2025, Ben Cohen said Friday in a phone interview from his office in Winnipeg. The 70-room hotel is will feature “extended-stay suites” with a kitchenette in each room, Cohen said. His company, Rideout Bay Developments, is managing construction of the hotel. Mitaanjigamiing First Nation, though an economic development corporation, is the property’s owner. Cohen said Rideout Management, a sister company to Rideout Bay, will manage the hotel. Also in the works…
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