The Soaring Eagle Inn & Conference Centre in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, US is to be demolished and a new hotel and waterpark built in its place.

The inn is owned by the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, whose Migizi Economic Development Company announced the news.

The three-star, 120-bedroom hotel will boast a bar and a restaurant that will overlook the existing golf course, as well as the 45,000sq ft indoor waterpark.

The waterpark will feature a variety of rides and slides and a retractable roof for the summer months.

Thalden Boyd Emery Architects have been appointed to design the project.

Work is to begin immediately, and the complex is expected to be completed by 2011.