Located
at the intersection of Branch Avenue and Suitland Parkway,
it isn't hard to imagine that it was once a choice spot for
HoJo's. Furthermore I suspect that it was sited at a point
that its developers had hoped would be adjacent to an Interstate,
for at one time highway planners tried several ways to plow
the limited access routes straight through Washington! One
plan even indicated that I-95 was to be constructed under
the city.
At
any rate, the fact that both were, still in 2004, branded
businesses demonstrated that Howard Johnson's knew how to
pick locations! The fact that the site is next to a Metro
Station also helps to explain its continued viability.
