The owner of the Heritage Hotel on Centerville Road intends to acquire a 13-acre parcel next door.
York-based Heritage Hospitality has agreed to buy the L-shaped tract, now being farmed, on the south side of the hotel.
The price is undisclosed.
"There are no specific plans yet" for the tract, said Melissa Beaverson, Heritage Hospitality spokeswoman.
"Obviously, being adjacent to us, it makes sense" to acquire the property since it's available, she said Friday.
Settlement on the purchase of the East Hempfield Township land, which borders Route 30, is expected in June.
The site is zoned community commercial, or C-2, as is the hotel.
Township official Mark Stivers said Heritage Hospitality's development team has met with township officials.
But the team did not offer any specific plans, said Stivers, director of planning and development.
Opened in 1970 as the Sherwood Knoll, the 166-room Heritage Hotel includes the 136-seat Loxley's Restaurant.
Heritage Hospitality, owned by Matt DeRose, acquired the hotel in April 2006 for $5.3 million, according to courthouse records.
By that time, the hotel's name had been changed to the Park Plaza.
A year later, the hotel and the neighboring business to the north, the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre, filed plans for a merger.
The plans called for relocating the theater into an expansion of the hotel and converting the current theater into offices.
Those plans fizzled, though, when the Dutch Apple concluded the project would be too costly.
Heritage Hospitality is best known as the owner and developer of Heritage Hills Golf Course & Resort in York.
It began as a restaurant and golf course in 1989. The $6 million resort hotel followed in 1997.
Handling the Centerville Road transaction is Dwight Wagner of U.S. Commercial Realty.
