New Hotel for Downtown Greenville

[carolinadude9409]

This is an email I just received from Windsor/Aughtry, the developer of the mixed-use project going next to city hall:

-We are still tweaking the plans and will have several planning sessions with City Council before releasing any plans to the public. I believe this will take several months to accomplish. Which parts of the project are you most interested in?

[distortedlogic]

Anyone heard anything about the three hotels planned for the point (and possibly a fifth I believe). I think they were all supposed to be open by 2008, so I would have expected to see renderings, or even groundbreaking by now. I wonder if some of the other hotel announcements have made them rethink.

[goodbye]

Staybridge is currently under construction, plus Homewood and Hilton Garden should soon break ground.

[adrockc2]

Looks like it's going to be a 140-room Courtyard by Marriott

[gs3]

^ Good news. I'm trying to figure the height of this development. Say there are 20 rooms per floor (as this is a somewhat small size footprint), that would be 7 floors of rooms, a floor for lobby and a couple of floors for parking/retail if this plan stays as originally proposed. So 10 floors maybe? Anybody have a guess or any additional info on the development?

[Greenville]

^ Good news. I'm trying to figure the height of this development. Say there are 20 rooms per floor (as this is a somewhat small size footprint), that would be 7 floors of rooms, a floor for lobby and a couple of floors for parking/retail if this plan stays as originally proposed. So 10 floors maybe? Anybody have a guess or any additional info on the development?

[gs3]

Would the parking floors be underground, though? And just to play devil's advocate, could the first floor still have hotel rooms but also have street-level retail around the front and sides?

Do you guys think city hall is the tenant that might occupy a lot of the space?

This is great news! Courtyard is a good chain, probably comparable to Hampton Inn (at least the usual Hampton Inns...maybe not the one at Riverplace). This Courtyard will likely fill a need for a good hotel for business travelers that is a step up from Holiday Inn Express but not on the level of Hyatt or Westin.

[Greenville]

Yeah, parking could be underground....isn't there some sort of underground deck there now? I hope we get at least 8 or 9 floors out of this. I can't imagine it being just a 4 or 5 floor building seeing that it's located in the heart of city center on Main.

[g-man430]

The building will be 6-7 stories tall, unfortunately.

[g-man430]

I was right. It will only be six stories tall. Read the first sentence in this updated article if you don't believe me: http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...EWS01/702210428 Thoughts and opinions? I know it won't be tall, but it will be ten times better than what is there currently. Height is not a factor in this situation, especially if those towers gsupstate is talking about come to fruition.

[distortedlogic]

Interesting article. The six stories is disappointing, but you can't be dissapointed about a development of this quality. More height could really give this area some good midrise density, but I'll take it nontheless. I just hope the design is not all brick! I was a little confused though, the article almost makes it sound as if the office portion will be a different building, though we have heard it will be part of it. I did like White's comments about ongoing interest in various parts of DT! Keep em comin' mayor