Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants announced today that it will be opening a new property in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2025, marking the brand’s fourth property in the state. The new boutique hotel will be part of a new-build 20-story mixed-use development project with the Kimpton hotel spanning the first six floors of the building.
The 179-room property will be located in the heart of downtown at the intersection of Hillsborough and S Dawson Streets and will feature three restaurant and bar concepts, including a rooftop lounge, and more than 6,500 square feet of event and meeting space. Inc Architecture and Design will serve as the interior designers for the property with Earl Swensson Associates, Inc, ESa, building the entire mixed-use structure.
Woah a lot better! Nothing special but an improvement over the ASR. The building is pushed east close to the street because 301H blocks the view to downtown.
I’m reserving judgment until we see all sides. Looks like an L-shaped tower, which is fine. Wish there was more interesting architecture, but the brick street level looks incredible. Let’s hope it turns out that way.
Man, the building itself may not be anything mind-blowing, but this is the type of thing I want to see from future downtown hotels: mixed use, multiple restaurants and/or retail, and architecture that doesn’t look like it came out of a hotel factory. @dtraleigh, does the article happen to mention what they’re going for with the remaining fourteen floors? Should we be expecting apartments or offices?
When I was down in Charlotte in March I walked by the one down there and it had more curved glass so I guess there’s not really a steady style for these things
The third one in NC is easily the most unique — it’s in the old R.J. Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem. It was completed in 1929 and designed by the same firm who later did the Empire State Building.
Seriously, I get that it’s a quirky relic of a time past, but let’s not pretend it’s a tourist attraction. It’s a cheap, outdated building that doesn’t really add much of anything to the city, its history, or its character. We’re upset about Goodnights because it’s an attractive building with a long legacy tied to it. We’d all be livid if they were decimating The Creamery for similar reasons (which, thankfully, they are not). But the Holiday Inn building, while noteworthy and perhaps even a little iconic, is really, at the end of the day, just another odd-looking hotel. It can’t be converted to something else, it’s not a marvel of engineering, it’s not interesting or historic enough to draw tourists… it’s just quirky. And its time has come.
All the circa 2010’s Charlotte downtown residential towers are real ugly. Just not good proportions and all glass. Even the twin Skyhouses are a little off and I even prefer the FNB tower in Raleigh compared to the one in Charlotte–weird proportions again and it has a parking base and looks like a cheap glass vase you buy at a dollar store however South End has some nice 20-something story towers that Raleigh can learn from and the office towers in Charlotte at least have some character like the Bottle Opener and the new Duke tower (though it’s smaller than I thought it would be).
