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Originally Posted by Trevor Birchett
GREAT news!!! Hopefully it all works out.
Also, I was downtown a few days ago and walked into the Holiday Inn Select. It is undergoing an interior renovation...with new carpeting, paint, etc. They also updated the signage outside of the building to drop the "Select" from it's name. Not sure how that will work out with the new Holiday Inn...
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IHG discontinued the Holiday Inn Select brand some years ago, and gave those existing hotels the option to either convert into a traditional full-service Holiday Inn or rebrand under the Crowne Plaza name, the former of which the existing Holiday Inn on Union and Second decided to do (especially since there already is a Crowne Plaza hotel downtown near the Cook Convention Center). As I mentioned before in this thread, the proposed Holiday Inn Express is a limited select service hotel, so it would not have the same amount of amenities as a full service Holiday Inn. I think both should be able to co-exist without any problems.
If Memphis does somehow land a Hard Rock Hotel, the surface parking lot just north of the Orpheum would be an ideal spot to put it; however, the article gave me the impression that they would have it built on adjacent property where Tri-State Bank's headquarters currently sits. On that small amount of land they would have to build the hotel on top of a new garage.
@zookeeper - The land bordered by Union to the north, Danny Thomas to the east, Beale to the south, and Fourth to the west has always been thrown around as a potential site for a new convention center near FedExForum, and that's still the case today. I'm not sure something like that will happen for some time - if not years - considering the issues sitting in front of the City of Memphis at the moment, but that should not act as a deterrent from planning for the future in both the short and long term, and not just thinking about it.