New Hotels in/around Uptown

[SouthEndCLT811]

Area mapping that place sits on 32 acres and 1400 rooms as you mentioned.  Granted they have other amenities but we'd need our Stargate to be way taller to fit on a smaller parcel.  Cool concept, I need to make it to Macau next time I'm out there.

Hopefully you had some soup dumplings at the Din Tai Fung that I saw was in the hotel.  Chain or not that place is always nice

Edited November 14, 2017 by SouthEndCLT811

[KJHburg]

I promise this is the last 2 possible hotel designs from Macau for our new convention hotel uptown. One I call the black hole design and the other I call the glass box stack design. 

[KJHburg]

Work on Omni and they are making progress.  They making this a lot more pedestrian friendly first time since it was built in the 1970s. 

[Cadi40]

Ground Floor Retail?

[KJHburg]

34 minutes ago, Cadi40 said:

Ground Floor Retail?

No real retail on street level but giving the hotel more of a presence at street level which it has really not had.  Here is the story from the Business Journal https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2016/08/22/renovations-targeted-for-uptown-omni-hotel.html

[Cadi40]

I'm excited, The Omni is a well known luxury hotel but I can't tell you how many people don't even know it's there because of the little signage and street presence, I don't even know where the door is to get into the Omni. 

[Cadi40]

Any updates on 1000+ Hotel? I think a JW Marriot Would be absolutely lovely and realistic. 

Edited November 28, 2017 by Cadi40

[Guest]

Any updates on 1000+ Hotel? I think a JW Marriot Would be absolutely lovely and realistic. 

No update. There’s currently money earmarked toward Westin that’s paid out yearly by the city. This expires next year.

Convention Hotels of this magnitude generally are 1/3 equity, 1/3 privately financed and 1/3 publically subsidized. With at least a price tag of $300M this won’t be happening without the city being okay with ponying up $100M. The city ponied up a ton less for the Westin.

Also, if there’s an update, someone will create a thread separately for this topic. Don’t worry, if someone CAN say something, they’ll say something. No need for follow ups.

Other than Johno’s unsubstantiated words at a golf tournament and a urban planning conference and the CRVAs publicly noted desires to land a convention hotel, I’m not sure any concrete progress has been made luring a 1000 room hotel. I’m sure there are plenty of developers and hoteliers that would like to be uptown, but frankly it will probably come down to the taxpayers in a city full of people that hate to publicly subsidize things.

Just my two cents.


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[KJHburg]

Couple hotel shots today.  Caught a reflection in the new Springhill Suites and busy work on the Omni ground level improvements. 

[Nick2]

@KJHburg Great pics as usual! I want to sincerely thank you for all the update photos that you post regularly.

[kickazzz2000]

 

Agreed, @KJHburg you are the man.  I would hate to see your gas bill.

[KJHburg]

1 minute ago, kickazzz2000 said:

 

Agreed, @KJHburg you are the man.  I would hate to see your gas bill.

Nothing changes with that I just bring my camera everywhere I go and I am all over Charlotte all the time.  And I can tell you where every QuikTrip is in the Charlotte metro for I have been to most of them. 

[NCMike1990]

ClearSky has a new photo gallery that focuses on the Duke data center.  http://photos.clearskyimages.com/2017-12-401-s-college-charlotte-aerials

[KJHburg]

Good find means the city wants to start marketing it for a convention hotel site as the site is leased to Duke Energy. 

[CharlotteWkndBuzz]

Those pics reminded me of that huge lot behind the trio of buildings (Hampton, garden inn and the Madison).  Surprised someone hasn't snatched it up yet. Appears to be just as big or even bigger than the new duke site. 

[KJHburg]

^^I think that property is owned by the city too but is planned for future expansion of the convention center.  I would check Polaris but  with the Meck county hack no one can get in it still!  

[jjwilli]

14 hours ago, KJHburg said:

Good find means the city wants to start marketing it for a convention hotel site as the site is leased to Duke Energy. 

99.9% sure this lot is owned entirely by Duke Energy and not just leased to them by the City of Charlotte. Polaris may still be down but Meck Co shared a link to a different property search website and I found this.

I looked this up in the past and the parcel of land was purchased from the bank that is now BofA.

[KJHburg]

^^^Okay I thought someone on here UP said it was owned by the city.  Then it is Duke Energy maybe getting ready to sell it then.  They are opening up a data center out in the University Research Park .  

[Nick2]

1,000 rooms. Makes perfect sense.

[KJHburg]

Not too much news in this article other than Charlotte is behind in luxury hotel rooms compared to Atlanta, Nashville etc.  I didn't know about this unknown luxury hotel proposed by Mayfair St Partners or even where that is proposed.  anyone know?  https://www.bisnow.com/charlotte/news/hotel/why-are-so-many-luxury-hotels-coming-to-the-queen-city-82744?be=kj%40charlottehomes.com&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mon-08-jan-2018-000000-0500_charlotte-re

[Guest]

12 minutes ago, KJHburg said:

Not too much news in this article other than Charlotte is behind in luxury hotel rooms compared to Atlanta, Nashville etc.  I didn't know about this unknown luxury hotel proposed by Mayfair St Partners or even where that is proposed.  anyone know?  https://www.bisnow.com/charlotte/news/hotel/why-are-so-many-luxury-hotels-coming-to-the-queen-city-82744?be=kj%40charlottehomes.com&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mon-08-jan-2018-000000-0500_charlotte-re

wow, what crapty reporting. The Mayfair hotel is an Even Hotel, and its Stonewal Station Hotel #2 and theres even approved elevations for it out there. Ignore the colors they are just to explain orientation.

 

Edited January 8, 2018 by Guest

[Scribe]

2 minutes ago, ricky_davis_fan_21 said:

The Mayfair hotel is an Even Hotel

Yup, https://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2017/08/31/second-hotel-site-at-crescent-stonewall-station.html

[KJHburg]

I forgot who that developer of that modular hotel was.  I guess we need take over Bisnow

[atlrvr]

Moxy Hotel - 4th and Brevard.

Directly across Brevard from the CTC... currently a surface lot.

[CLTProductions]

10 minutes ago, atlrvr said:

Moxy Hotel - 4th and Brevard.

Directly across Brevard from the CTC... currently a surface lot.

Wait.....time out....WHAT?!!?!