Memphis considers hotel for vacant 100 North Main skyscraper
Ted Evanoff, USA TODAY NETWORK – TennesseePublished 10:00 a.m. CT Sept. 18, 2017
http://www.commercialappeal.com/stor...per/642264001/
This is probably worth taking with a grain of salt. Also, it looks as though the other Convention hotel at Front/Poplar is dead due to the group that wants to "protect the riverfront." I don't know how a high rise would be bad for that spot, considering it's currently the home to that hideous garage. It just makes me think that deal fell through, as it didn't seem to have much merit either way and this is their excuse. And also, 100 N Main isn't exactly connected the convention center, so I don't know how this would be a "convention hotel" but if someone could actually ever pull something off I'd be for it.
"Oswalt said 100 North Main’s renovation could spur new developments and improvements that diminish the sense of a long commute such as hotel-to-convention-hall buses and more retail stores in and around 100 North Main.
Efforts launched last year by Denver hotel consultant Robert Swerdling to build a 600-room convention hotel on city property on North Front apparently have been stalled by objections raised to development on the site by Friends of the Riverfront. The civic group has threatened a lawsuit in support of an early 19th Century deed barring private businesses on what was described in the 1820s as the promenade."