Another hotel planned for downtown Greensboro (High Point: apartments, home, living)
Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High PointThe Triad Area
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I'm not sure that 3 hotels is an indication of "moving to the next level". It will take a lot more than that for Greensboro to get off the level it's on.
Well I think that the hotels, along with the PAC and new park, will indeed put downtown Greensboro at a point on the path that downtown Greenville was on about 10-15 years ago. Hopefully the momentum continues.
I think the fact that there are this many serious hotel proposals on the table says a lot. This would have been unthinkable and even laughable 15 years ago. I do think the hotels along with the performing arts center, park, greenway and Union Square campus will help set the pace for downtown Greensboro over the next 10 to 20 years. Along the way we may even see some unexpected urban projects in the center-city.
GSO needs to take care of their crime issue & teens downtown...Charlotte had that problem years ago but they nipped that problem years ago...very quickly.
GSO needs to take care of their crime issue & teens downtown...Charlotte had that problem years ago but they nipped that problem years ago...very quickly.
GSO needs to take care of their crime issue & teens downtown...Charlotte had that problem years ago but they nipped that problem years ago...very quickly.
Lived in Greensboro for years(college and then 2 more years working, and still visit regularly since a lot of my friends are still there) and not one time have I ever felt unsafe in downtown Greensboro. I live in Cary Now but go to either downtown Durham or Raleigh and hear people say the same thing(while the people who actually go there on a regular basis are not seeing this crime). People watch the news and make isolated events that are often blown way out of proportion and make it out to be like it's mad max out there.
This was the King Cotton Hotel built in 1926. It was the city's largest hotel at the time and was demolished around 1971. The hotel was located on the corner of East Market Street and Davie Street, almost directly across the street from the planned Wyndham Luxury hotel. The Wyndham, which will be an 8 story hotel built on top of a 4 and a half story parking deck will be about the height of the King Cotton.
Here is a side interior elevation of the Wyndham. This must have been an earlier drawing before the hotel plan was downsized because it shows the hotel around 18 or 19 stories. Appears to be the same architectural firm that designed BB&T Ballpark in downtown Winston-Salem and Hotel Indigo in Asheville.
Proposed floor plan which reveals this will be an L shaped tower.
and this parking lot is the site for the proposed downtown Hampton Inn & Suites. Its a small lot, Depending on how many rooms this hotel will have, I suspect it will be between 4 and 7 stories tall.
GSO needs to take care of their crime issue & teens downtown...Charlotte had that problem years ago but they nipped that problem years ago...very quickly.
Someone is obsessed with comparing Charlotte to the Triad. It's been done already, so you aren't breaking any new ground here. Charlotte is only an hour away...most people here are very familiar with Charlotte.
Enjoy Advance. You are IN the country. If you want a more urban or progressive area in the Triad, Advance is not the place to live.
Lived in Greensboro for years(college and then 2 more years working, and still visit regularly since a lot of my friends are still there) and not one time have I ever felt unsafe in downtown Greensboro. I live in Cary Now but go to either downtown Durham or Raleigh and hear people say the same thing(while the people who actually go there on a regular basis are not seeing this crime). People watch the news and make isolated events that are often blown way out of proportion and make it out to be like it's mad max out there.
Agreed. I currently live downtown Greensboro and have never felt unsafe, I use the same life precautions I used when living in High Point or anywhere else I may visit.
I think of the four hotels planned for downtown Greensboro, the one with the longest shot is the hotel planned for the Union Square development at South Elm and Lee Streets. Its not really a set in stone plan and if the other three hotels are built first, it may be a long while before downtown is ready for another. The other three plans (Wyndham, Hampton Inn, and Roy Carroll's mixed-use hotel project) are more solid proposals.
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