Same owner, at least as I understand how these hotel deals usually work. Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but Tidal Real Estate owns the Holliday Inn. Tidal Real Estate, not Kimpton, will own the hotel that is to be built. Kimpton will just manage/operate the hotel.
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It’s actually pretty meh inside. The rooms are small and the whole thing feels really ordinary for a central city hotel. The best thing about the hotel is the view from the top floor restaurant, but those views will remain in the new building as well.
I suspect that folks who have long histories in the city are romanticizing their own youth and history more than the building itself.
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Good riddance, Holiday Inn!
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Majority of hotels are not owned by the brand but by a third party. Hence why we didn’t any hotel companies go under during COVID.
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IMO
DTR needs all of the help it can get. This dilapidating structure would be expensive to refurbish but we’re always saying to think outside of the box?
So while we’re all talking about this, the hotel website has bookings available into 2025 currently…
Do we know if this still open? May go grab a drink there to pay my condolences
last day to reserve a stay is April 7
So not the last day to stay, but the last day to reserve and as @GucciLittlePig says, they’re accepting bookings into 2025.
I agree that downtown should have all of the love it can get, and if that love meant that a hotelier renovated this building into a cool, retro place to stay like happened to Longleaf, then great. That said, this is not the case for this site.
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Wouldn’t it be weird to let people book a room for anytime until January 2025, but not let anyone do it after this April? Like, I could book a room for December and be the only guest, but they still have to be open.
Honestly, unless you have one of your special 
sources, I’m guessing Raleigh Magazine jumped the gun again, or the Holiday Inn booking website hasn’t been updated. It would be cool if “journalists” cited sources instead of just making splashy headlines.
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Oh dear. Drinking on the sidewalk it is!
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Holiday Inn and Kimpton are just a few brands owned by IHG (International Hotel Group).
The hotel was renovated around 2000. When I was in there around 2007, the elevators were fine, for example. But even at that point it was already pretty cheap. Since then, those renovations have basically worn out, so it’s down to either renovating again to get it back up to modern budget hotel standards, or raze it and build new.
It’s an oddball building and it does lend some character to the city and the skyline. And it is good to have an inexpensive downtown hotel. But I for one am not really going to shed a tear when it comes down.
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I like how they just changed the date to something else without a correction or update, much less a source or reason to believe this one.
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Not to get on a soapbox but reflective of the shambles that Raleigh media is in.
Raleigh Magazine: ~vibes~ based glossy “reporting”
TBJ: industry press releases posing as journalism
N&O: McClatchy’s hulking incompetence
Indyweek: too focused on the progressive intramural spat du jour to achieve general coverage
WRAL: unalarming noise for boomers that’s occasionally informative
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Yeah that’s pretty accurate, except for the occasional alarmist narrative about scary cities on WRAL
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Yep like @Spero said about the papers I’m give grade of TV Media
WTVD goes in depth about it talks to people on both sides, and highlights the positives and negatives and talks to people who are afraid of growth and people who are for it
WNCN: just talks to people behind the project and folks living near it.
WRAL is putting scary into but there audience is older long time residents and that there only news source of the it like WTVD which is the same however the only difference between them is age group and ideologies.
This reminds me of one of my favorite shows Yes Minister.
Don’t tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
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Dropping this here but, it’s a ‘Showoff’ :
Folks are still designing nods to this HI construction type 
- see the below link to a proposed LA build, that’s OMG ONLY 22 storeys ( love how Brits get down with floor jargon 
) -
“Embodying Hollywood’s spirit of creativity and innovation, the building’s spiralling form responds to the 360-degree views, creating a new destination for Los Angeles,” said design team lead Nigel Dancey.
Its circular form will be deployed to offer 360-degree views of surrounding downtown LA while creating a distinctive landmark. Cascading gardens for outdoor working, natural light and ventilation create a healthy and highly productive working environment on Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard"
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