CRANBERRY TWP — The township supervisors Thursday night gave the go-ahead for a new hotel on the site of the former brewpub Hereford & Hops off Route 228 in the shadow of the new Westinghouse Electric Co. headquarters.

The 129-room Cambria Suites Hotel is part of the Choice International Hotels chain.

Choice International franchises hotels under these names: Cambria Suites, Comfort Inn, Comfort Suites, Quality, Sleep Inn, Clarion, Mainstay Suites, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel, Econo Lodge and Rodeway Inn.

The final plans approved are a four-story, 84,705-square-foot hotel to be built at 1740 Route 228 on six acres.

It will be near the Marriott Pittsburgh North hotel at 100 Cranberry Woods.

The two-room suites will have separate living and working areas featuring MP3 docks, DVD players, media hubs for gaming and Internet access with wireless network.

Pittsburgh-based Templar Development has an agreement to buy the Hereford & Hops property for about $5 million. Another $16.5 million will be spent to build the hotel.

Mark Veon, Wayne Hippo and Richard Bowen make up the Templar firm, which started up in January.

Hereford & Hops filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in December and closed several months later.

Templar plans to start construction in October and the building should take about a year to complete.