LEWISTON — A Lincoln Street hotel should break ground in September and be ready for guests next summer.

“It’s an 11-month building process, from start to opening the doors,” Chris Thompson, president of Lewiston-based Parallax Partners, said. “If everything goes according to plans, we should be able to take our first guest by June or July 2013.”

Plans call for Thompson’s group to build a 90-unit Hampton Inn Hotel on the one-acre lot on Lincoln Street just south of Yvon’s Supersonic Car Wash.

The $10 million four-story hotel would be built across the Androscoggin River from the Hilton Garden Inn and would be marketed as a 3 star hotel, slightly less expensive than Auburn’s Hilton Garden Inn Riverwatch hotel.

Both the Hilton Garden Inn hotel brand and the Hampton Inn brand are chains owned and marketed by Hilton Worldwide.

“We’re finishing things up with our lenders now, and getting final design documents,” he said.

The plan picked up its final approval from the Planning Board last week.

“The ball is in their court now,” City Planner David Hediger said. “It’s a big deal to get something new in this area. This guy, he’s going to make it happen.”

The Riverfront Island Master plan, which was also approved by the Planning Board this week, calls for a hotel in the area. It would tie into a Lewiston Riverwalk, a tree-lined walking trail all along the city’s canal system, and expanded uses in the area. Those include more market rate housing, more office jobs and more restaurants, according to the plan.

“What’s fantastic is, this project is consistent with past plans and our current plan,” Hediger said. “It’s been discussed in the past, that we need a hotel down there. He’s stayed focused on this, and now he’s going to make it happen.”

The current proposal calls for a four-story hotel built at 15 and 29 Lincoln St., the former sites of the R.I. Mitchell building and the Vincent Fruits building. The building’s face would be built right up to Lincoln Street, with parking and support between the street and the river. The bulk of the rooms would face north, looking at the Great Falls.

Most of the 96 parking spaces would be built on site or on a city lot between the hotel and the Androscoggin River.

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