Carr already owns two hotels in Alexandria: the 178-room Holiday Inn Hotel Suites and the 254-room C

The Board of Architectural Review for the Old and Historic District will review concept radisson hotels south africa drawings for Alexandria's first proposed waterfront hotel at the July 25, meeting. radisson hotels south africa Carr Hospitality plans to build a boutique hotel at 220 S. Union Street on the Cummings-Turner property.
Carr already owns two hotels in Alexandria: the 178-room Holiday Inn Hotel Suites and the 254-room Crowne Plaza Hotel Old Town Alexandria. The proposed Hotel Indigo will have 121 rooms on five floors and a 21,000 square radisson hotels south africa foot garage. Other amenities include a restaurant, radisson hotels south africa business radisson hotels south africa center, a meeting room, a fitness center and a green roof with outdoor seating.
The Alexandria radisson hotels south africa City Council made waterfront hotels possible with the January, 2012, adoption of the Waterfront Small Area Plan. Although the Small Area Plan faces ongoing court challenges, Carr has decided to move forward with this proposal. Carr has an option to purchase the Union Street property, which expires at the end of 2012. According to City sources, Carr will apply for a Development Special Use Permit and a zoning variance. If the City's proposed new waterfront zoning changes are upheld in court, Carr will withdraw the request for a zoning variance.
Hotel Indigo is a brand of the InterContinental Hotel Group. According to the website, hotels of the brand are located in urban, mid-town and near-urban markets proximate to businesses, restaurants and entertainment venues. The brand puts focus on neighborhoods and has a local take on design, combining the individuality of a boutique hotel with the reliability of a big brand company. There are 44 Hotel Indigos throughout the Americas, Europe and Greater China, with plans to expand further into Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Carr's existing radisson hotels south africa hotels in old town are among the least desirable and "lowest end" in the area. They are dated and In their highly desirable locations, they could certainly use some additional refurbishment. Both are next to very high end residential developments or proposed developments (Orinoco condos $900k to $4m I think). Check out the travel websites for visitor comments on those properties - definitely mixed reviews and some strong criticism.
If your family owned two cars which both were in need of repair and you had two or more drivers in the family, wouldn't you first "fix what you got" before buying that shiny new Lexus over the Internet which may be a lemon? Spending a lot of money to "maybe" get a big hotel design approved by the bar, who are not the final decision makers - and with all the additional variables and risk associated with this project; is not a prudent business decision any way you look at it... If I were an investor radisson hotels south africa in Carr hospitality, I would be very concerned....
The all volunteer BAR have a good reputation for following their own rules and guidelines. Among them are sections radisson hotels south africa 8 and 9 (pages 2-3) of the attached which talk about the requirement that other city boards/agencies must first review proposals prior to the BARs review. Additionally and more importantly, section 9 states that they can (and should) defer based on the proposal's "non-compliance with current zoning." The site is neither zoned for the increased density nor the use as a hotel.