Picture from Triangle Business Journal.
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I think I have a plan for people like you and several others on this forum regarding this topic.
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I can’t see because all of those shadows. 
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No on-site parking!
Removing the on-site parking requirement really opens up development opportunities for smaller sites like this, where otherwise it would be a challenge to squeeze both a parking garage (which have very large footprints – anything less than 120’ x 240’ costs a good deal more) plus a building onto a site.
Edit: The ex-Holiday Inn has parking right next door. Technically, many DTR hotels (Sheraton, Hampton, Hyatt House Seaboard, planned Moxy) have no parking on the same parcel.
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Given these plans…I do think we are going to see a Hotel Indigo + either Kimpton or Even Hotels. I’m putting money on Kimpton. I actually think Kimpton could take the old hotel building while Indigo goes in the new one.
But I could also totally be wrong.
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How they will handle parking is the question. The “phase 2” ramp seems to imply a literal connection to the Holiday Inn / Hotel Indigo parking garage, because a ramp literally exists there today. So perhaps Indigo and whatever this new hotel is will share parking after all. Another possibility is leasing space in another deck somewhere. Maybe Powerhouse Square.
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Would be a bold move to build a large hotel with no parking at all, other than a loading dock. I don’t know that any private-sector investor has the nerve to try that here at this time.
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What’s also weird, if I’m looking at the plans right, is that the main entrance and essentially front of the hotel is in that narrow alley between this new building and the old. And the 3 sides facing streets are not really activated at the ground level.
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Having the main entrance and valet area be away from the street is probably just a better/safer way to divert hotel traffic from the overly trafficked streets… plus it’s would be easier to access the parking deck.
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Exactly. I noted both that drop off was in the alley which which made sense to me, and that the kitchen is on the Edenton end, and the restaurant on the Hillsboro side, with a service corridor along Dawson. I thought that was pretty lame.
This locatiion is not unreasonable to manage for conventioneers without a car. Google says it’s a 13 minute walk to the convention center, and it’s also walkable to restaurants and entertainment in Glenwood South and the Warehouse District. I don’t think that we want to have every conventioneer coming with their own car to park. Also, I suspect that these hotels may have agreements with existing parking garages and will likely have a pretty efficient valet system in place.
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Yeah I certainly see the benefits, but it’s also just kind of weird visually. I guess we’ll see how it turns out.
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i stayed at an AC in Pittsburgh…if I recall correctly i paid for parking at an adjacent surface lot….maybe some interplay between indigo and kimpton as far as parking charges?
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