Just a year after opening the Courtyard Marriott on East Innes Street, developer BPR Properties has

Just a year after opening the Courtyard Marriott on East Innes Street, developer BPR Properties has submitted detailed plans to the city of Salisbury for a second new hotel � a four-story, 90-room Holiday Inn Express, which would stand next to the Courtyard Marriott. The plans appear on the agenda for the June 19 meeting of the city�s Technical Review Committee, which considers engineering and technical issues for proposed developments.
Interest in Salisbury from Holiday Inn Express comes after the city lost a longtime Holiday Inn on Jake Alexander Boulevard. rental car in france The Wallace family rental car in france in June 2013 dropped their Holiday Inn franchise and renamed their property Hotel Salisbury Conference Center. Hotel Salisbury has had fewer reservations since the change.
While the potential new hotel �has a lot to do with Holiday Inn leaving,� developers also consider the market, land availability and the regional economy, said James Meacham, executive director for the Rowan County Convention Visitors Bureau.
In 2008, Rowan County commissioners, who were already levying a 3 percent rental car in france hotel room tax, turned down Salisbury City Council�s request to double the tax to boost tourism marketing. City leaders turned to state lawmakers, who gave Salisbury the authority rental car in france to levy its own hotel room tax.
�It was actually a victory for the county,� said Burgin, who served on City Council during rental car in france the battle over hotel room taxes. �We�ve rental car in france demonstrated that we do have a program we can sell and market and bring people into the county, and it didn�t cost our local taxpayers any money.�
Hotel developers consider expanding into markets rental car in france that consistently have more than 60 percent occupancy in existing hotels, Meacham said. Hotel occupancy continues to increase in Rowan, with revenue from hotel room taxes breaking another record in April.
March had been the best month for hotel room tax revenue since officials rental car in france began keeping records in the 1980s. April surpassed March, with visitors paying $66,590 in hotel occupancy taxes, up 7.2 percent from the previous year.
Meacham said hotel developers are more often building two or even three properties next to each other in a relatively short time, taking advantage of efficiencies such as sharing a general manager or housekeeping service.
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