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DanRNC Burg

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The O'Henry is very nice. We ate at the Green Valley Grill when it first opened. Hopefully this group will eventually build a similar project in the Glenwood area in Raleigh (they had originally planned to but backed off).

The Proximity is one of the ugliest hotel designs I've seen.

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sax184 Hamlet

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Why is it named "Proximity" Hotel when it looks like it's in the middle of nowhere?

Because as a culture, we've collectively forgotten most of the core tenets about how to fashion buildings and space into functional environments. Not knowing how to do this, we're even more lost on how to label stuff.

So we come up with names like this, or we name a subway stop in Atlanta "Perimeter Center."

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Beany Whistle-Stop

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Why is it named "Proximity" Hotel when it looks like it's in the middle of nowhere?

Sorry, transitman doesn't know what he is talking about.

Proximity was the name of an old textile mill in Greensboro. The name serves as a memorial if you will, to Greensboro's history in textiles.

The hotel is located in a very busy area of Greensboro, inside an office park and across from Friendly Shopping Center. The company's sister hotel the O'Henry, is about 500 yards away. The photos on this page are decieving.

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cityboi Metropolitan Area

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Sorry, transitman doesn't know what he is talking about.

Proximity was the name of an old textile mill in Greensboro. The name serves as a memorial if you will, to Greensboro's history in textiles.

The hotel is located in a very busy area of Greensboro, inside an office park and across from Friendly Shopping Center. The company's sister hotel the O'Henry, is about 500 yards away. The photos on this page are decieving.

I still wish this hotel were downtown and renamed the "King Cotton Hotel" after the old one that was imploded in 1971. King Cotton was a name that was used in the textile industry many years ago and could have also become a memorial to the textile industry.

ezcheese Thanks for sharing those photos with us.

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ezcheese Hamlet

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I still wish this hotel were downtown and renamed the "King Cotton Hotel" after the old one that was imploded in 1971. King Cotton was a name that was used in the textile industry many years ago and could have also become a memorial to the textile industry.

ezcheese Thanks for sharing those photos with us.

no problem. i'll try and post regular updates of the progress.

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thanks.

DCB thats the first color picture Ive seen of the King Cotton. Look like a nice building. It is ashame they tore down all those buidling around the King Cotton too. and they did it for that ugly News & Record building. yuck. It really is ashame becasue Davie Street use to look like South Elm. There are only a few old row buildings left (a block over from Natty Greenes)

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Sorry, transitman doesn't know what he is talking about.

Proximity was the name of an old textile mill in Greensboro. The name serves as a memorial if you will, to Greensboro's history in textiles.

The hotel is located in a very busy area of Greensboro, inside an office park and across from Friendly Shopping Center. The company's sister hotel the O'Henry, is about 500 yards away. The photos on this page are decieving.

Okay, so there's a historical link. Fair enough, on this one, I got it wrong. But still, we don't know how to name any development anymore. Developers these days usually name neighborhoods after the natural features they destroyed to build them in the first place- example: "Pine Meadows." It's a good bet that anything with this name required them to cut down pines or pave over meadows.

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DCB thats the first color picture Ive seen of the King Cotton. Look like a nice building. It is ashame they tore down all those buidling around the King Cotton too. and they did it for that ugly News & Record building. yuck. It really is ashame becasue Davie Street use to look like South Elm. There are only a few old row buildings left (a block over from Natty Greenes)

Yeah, it's a real shame. It's kinda strange to think that, despite the city growing at a steady pace since the 1950s, that downtown has been shrinking until just recently.

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Sorry, transitman doesn't know what he is talking about.

Proximity was the name of an old textile mill in Greensboro. The name serves as a memorial if you will, to Greensboro's history in textiles.

The hotel is located in a very busy area of Greensboro, inside an office park and across from Friendly Shopping Center. The company's sister hotel the O'Henry, is about 500 yards away. The photos on this page are decieving.

Thanks, because for a minute there, I was like :blink:

Transitman's point may not hold in this case, but he does have one.

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sax184 Hamlet

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Great pictures of Proximity Mill! Thanks for sharing.

Indeed, lovely pictures of a building with timeless style, class, grace and human scale. The Proximity Hotel is paying homage to this august building by attaching a funeral home portico to a "I-can't-believe-it's-not-a-detention-facility" midrise.

Where do the architects who build things like Proximity Hotel study? What texts do they read? And is there any way we can confiscate these texts, and then shred them?

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