WATERVILLE, Maine (AP)   Maine’s Colby College has named an architect and operator for a boutique hotel it plans to open next year.

The 50-room hotel is part of Waterville’s downtown revitalization project. The college says Virginia-based architecture and engineering firm Baskervill will serve as architect and designer of the hotel, while South Carolina-based Charlestowne Hotels will run the hotel and its bar and restaurant.

Colby says the hotel will include approximately 50 rooms, as well as meeting rooms, a fitness center and the ground-floor restaurant. Elm City LLC, the development arm of Colby College, owns the hotel property.

Colby says it expects to begin construction later this year with an anticipated hotel opening in 2020.