Don’t know the timing, but my guess would be for the demolition to begin in a few months.
That is one of the best-looking buildings I’ve seen proposed for Raleigh in awhile. Maybe a bit monotonous, but I really like it overall. I hope it gets built soon.
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You do realize that if they had built this at North Hills, it would be about 12 to 17 floors tall? 
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This is what a High Rise Hotel should look like, not a Motel. If folks are crying for more hotel rooms why build at only 10 floors high. 20 to 25 floors should be the max.
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The CIAA may be moving their BB tourney from Charlotte but Raleigh isn’t being considered due to inadequate basketball facilities and limited hotel capacity …
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Interesting read here.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article219925080.html
The visitors bureau considers walking distance as two blocks away or closer. Currently, Raleigh has three hotels that fit that criteria — Raleigh Marriott City Center, Residence Inn Downtown and Sheraton Raleigh — which total 928 rooms, according to Jessica Holt, spokeswoman for the bureau.
So here’s the RCC and two blocks.
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You also have this quote:
Robbins also noted that the Midtown hotels do very well when conventions come to Raleigh because “of the shortage of rooms downtown” and the fact that “Midtown has concentrated retail and dining.”
North Hills may be leading on small and medium-sized meetings while downtown leads on bigger meetings but is challenged with booking even more of these because of the lack of a 400+ room hotel.
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Any new info on Glen on Peace? Also in place of Red Hat Amphitheater, there should be a 30+ story mixed use with a convention center bottom and restaurants and on top a 400+ bed hotel.
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They should dust off the plans for the Soleil Center and put that there.
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CanesFan - I agree! Would love to see that project come back to life!
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It would be a good time to redo plans for the Soleil Center and put this at the News & Observer Site.
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While I’m glad to see the Nash Square hotel announcement, I am disappointed that it’s not bigger. 190 rooms is good, but 290 or 390 rooms would be better!
Speaking of hotel rooms, I really think that the industry needs some fundamental disruption from a scale perspective. I can’t tell you how many times I stayed alone on business trips in a 2 double/queen bed hotel room by myself. That’s capacity left on the table. Now I’m not saying that the rooms have to be tiny, but a hotel developer can look honestly at its market data and realize that a good percentage of the rooms are occupied by one person: especially during conventions. Using this data can result in more efficient rooms, yielding more rooms in future hotels. Certainly developers should continue to provide large rooms that will sleep 4 for families, but those shouldn’t be most of the rooms. This is especially true downtown.
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These massing studies make no sense to me given the gigantic garage that’s anchoring it.
Those missing rooms will be occupied by cars even though many convention goers fly to Raleigh and take ubers…
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Hopefully the developer has the foresight to make the parking levels convertible to occupiable space in the future. I completely agree about how people will come to downtown.
John, great observation. The disruption of offering smaller rooms is already underway:
Couldn’t find a better link but it mentions the basics
The next step is offering these small rooms with no personnel at front desk with the aid of technology. Just send in a cleaning crew and maintenance as required as seen in Europe already.
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Thanks for the link to the article. It just makes total sense, and not just for Millennials. Some of the hotels I’ve stayed in recently were over 500 square feet. Heck, that’s a studio apartment these days!
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Winwood Hospitality Group has purchased the Firestone autoshop downtown with plans to develop at a later date. Bizjournals has just posted an article They also plan to begin building the Courtyard Mariott hotel next to the convention center where Enterprise rent a car is during the 4th Qtr of 2019.
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