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So I'm not really in the know on much but heard there was a hotel coming to Main Street Lexington in the empty spot beside Bodhi. Can anyone confirm or have details?
So I'm not really in the know on much but heard there was a hotel coming to Main Street Lexington in the empty spot beside Bodhi. Can anyone confirm or have details?
The Free Times reports it will be a 90-100 room unspecified Marriott brand franchise operated by Lexington Hospitality, which has several in the Midlands including the Viata Aloft.
the hotel downtown news is great for lexington, that should help ensure some restaurants thrive downtown and hopefully brings even a few more new ones. Parking will have to be worked out but thats worth it for the chance to grow dtown lexington into something more then its current status.
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Looks like the Lexington hotel will be a Springhill Suites based on the rendering included with the Coladaily.com article.
the hotel downtown news is great for lexington, that should help ensure some restaurants thrive downtown and hopefully brings even a few more new ones. Parking will have to be worked out but thats worth it for the chance to grow dtown lexington into something more then its current status.
Glad to hear some positive on this. On the Happenings in Lexington SC Facebook page there's a lot of people who think this is a terrible idea. They are concerned with traffic and parking. Yes the parking has to be an issue and needs to be worked out but what a great addition for downtown. As you stated it should help the businesses. A few weeks ago we drove through downtown and it was busy. There were people walking around and the restaurants looked packed. The Icehouse seems to bring in different concerts.
Though traffic in Lexington is definitely an issue, I find it a bit laughable people are that concerned a ~90 room hotel is really going to be that big of a deal. Lets say on average the hotel is 70% occupied, that means about 60 rooms a night will be booked. I don't think given all the traffic issues that Lexington has, that the ~70 cars associated with the booked hotel rooms & hotel employees will really make it that much worse. Specially when people come and go into a hotel at all different hours, hotel check ins and outs are not typically on the same schedule as during Lexington rush hours (morning commute in and evening commute home). If you want to moan about traffic, complain to city council about the 100s and 100s of new homes be thrown up with really no true zoning or forward looking road planning, those house create a HUGE multiple of traffic vs one small hotel.
The hotel also will bring in a nice additional tax revenue source associated with its hotel bookings along with the already stated side effect of helping restaurants and other business thrive in downtown.
Another news note in downtown lexington was a mention in thestate on two new shops opening up there in the near future (boutique store and candy store within Blowfish store), both relatively small businesses but every business helps
Glad to hear some positive on this. On the Happenings in Lexington SC Facebook page there's a lot of people who think this is a terrible idea. They are concerned with traffic and parking. Yes the parking has to be an issue and needs to be worked out but what a great addition for downtown. As you stated it should help the businesses. A few weeks ago we drove through downtown and it was busy. There were people walking around and the restaurants looked packed. The Icehouse seems to bring in different concerts.
Though traffic in Lexington is definitely an issue, I find it a bit laughable people are that concerned a ~90 room hotel is really going to be that big of a deal. Lets say on average the hotel is 70% occupied, that means about 60 rooms a night will be booked. I don't think given all the traffic issues that Lexington has, that the ~70 cars associated with the booked hotel rooms & hotel employees will really make it that much worse. Specially when people come and go into a hotel at all different hours, hotel check ins and outs are not typically on the same schedule as during Lexington rush hours (morning commute in and evening commute home). If you want to moan about traffic, complain to city council about the 100s and 100s of new homes be thrown up with really no true zoning or forward looking road planning, those house create a HUGE multiple of traffic vs one small hotel.
The hotel also will bring in a nice additional tax revenue source associated with its hotel bookings along with the already stated side effect of helping restaurants and other business thrive in downtown.
Another news note in downtown lexington was a mention in thestate on two new shops opening up there in the near future (boutique store and candy store within Blowfish store), both relatively small businesses but every business helps
This is why Lexington needs to get off their high horse and let the COMET run through it. That's a county with 380k+ people living in it and easily could increase ridership and give people another option in transportation other than driving
Though traffic in Lexington is definitely an issue, I find it a bit laughable people are that concerned a ~90 room hotel is really going to be that big of a deal. Lets say on average the hotel is 70% occupied, that means about 60 rooms a night will be booked. I don't think given all the traffic issues that Lexington has, that the ~70 cars associated with the booked hotel rooms & hotel employees will really make it that much worse. Specially when people come and go into a hotel at all different hours, hotel check ins and outs are not typically on the same schedule as during Lexington rush hours (morning commute in and evening commute home). If you want to moan about traffic, complain to city council about the 100s and 100s of new homes be thrown up with really no true zoning or forward looking road planning, those house create a HUGE multiple of traffic vs one small hotel.
The hotel also will bring in a nice additional tax revenue source associated with its hotel bookings along with the already stated side effect of helping restaurants and other business thrive in downtown.
Another news note in downtown lexington was a mention in thestate on two new shops opening up there in the near future (boutique store and candy store within Blowfish store), both relatively small businesses but every business helps
Golffan21: I am happy to read that new business is coming to downtown. I love that downtown is booming when so many other cities aren't doing anything with their downtown. I lived in Winnsboro back 20 years ago and was on their downtown revitalization board. Nothing ever came out of it and their downtown still looks the same.
What are your thoughts on the 1 way street project that goes into effect next week? I rode out there today to figure out how things were going to work. Should be interesting but will be interested to see if it helps.
Shannon
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