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Asheville’s hotel construction ban
At last night’s meeting, the Asheville City Council unanimously voted to ban new hotel construction for up to a year. According to the Citizen-Times, the decision “follows years of concerns…
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Where exactly are tourists supposed to stay in Asheville?
Earlier this month, Asheville’s Citizen-Times wrote a story under the headline, Hotel developers win legal battle against Asheville, will proceed with 8-story project. It’s an interesting one. Last year, Parks…
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The Great Hotel Boomlet of 2015
Ely Portillo of the UPoR writes: Charlotte’s uptown apartment market is booming, and office towers are springing up. But it’s another sector – hotels – that’s quietly laying the groundwork…
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Another downtown Gboro hotel
This time it’s developer Randall Kaplan announcing plans for another downtown Greensboro hotel, this one along February One Place (right across the the street from the International Civil Rights Museum)…
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Tax Them More
The room tax in Swain County just increased from 3 to 4%. Since unintended consequences are a given these days, it is safe to assume the opinions of taxation-without-representation tourists…
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Traffic & Children & Market Edges, Oh, My!
Many of the opinion that if we are going to have big government, one of the main things it should do is limit squabbles amongst its constituents. However, once again…
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Why are hotel supporters so touchy?
Backing off from the Skip Alston-Deena Hayes dramatics surrounding the proposed downtown Greensboro hotel, the N&R’s Joe Killian writes a supposedly run-of-the mill article on the Guilford County bond authority’s…
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N&R interviews downtown hotel developers
I watched with interest and an open mind N&R editor Allen Johnson’s interview with proposed taxpayer-financed downtown hotel developers Randall Kaplan and Bridget Chisholm. A couple of things jumped out…
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Who got to the Rhino?
From —- of all places —- Rhino Rumors: The downtown hotel proposal is going through changes so fast that it is hard to keep up. It appears the latest proposal…
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Re: It wasn’t even spring break
How long before a law suit is file against the hotel for not sufficiently warning people about not doing handstands on their balcony railings?