Comments on: Decatur Budget Priorities: Community & Economic Development

By: Lyn

Lyn — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:18:28 +0000

actually you are right — the Candler Hotel was torn down in 1983 to make way for the first Town Center building. My 60s and 70s comment was in reference to all of the buildings that were lost on the western side of the square with urban renewal. With more creative approaches to renovation now the norm, I’m certain that whatever the limitations were that seemed so impossible to solve in the early 80s could now be dealt with to allow it to be retrofitted for a new use . . . like a boutique hotel?

By: GAK

GAK — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:54:10 +0000

I would like to point out that the re-development around the office building on Ponce was intended to have a boutique hotel that you speak of included. However, the NIMBYs shot it down.

By: Lyn

Lyn — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:23:00 +0000

It would certainly be a great location for a boutique hotel but that site is so small I don’t see how we could fit something in that space. Good idea though! If I was visiting Decatur, I would love to stay in a small hotel adjacent to the square.

By: Flaka

Flaka — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:22:27 +0000

I wonder if anything will happen to the building near Eddie’s Attic (the one that’s had the sign up for years about bringing residential back to the square). That would seem a great location for a small boutique hotel, if ever they abandon the bringing residential back to the square idea?

By: cubalibre

cubalibre — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:03:26 +0000

It’s a gorgeous house, but it needs a lot of little things done to it, in addition to a not-so-little thing: a new kitchen (I’ve developed a bad habit of cruising the real estate websites looking at the prices on the listed properties here in the City). I’m sure the people who run it are lovely, but I can’t imagine that they’ll get the $1.2M they’re asking for it b/c few people are opening businesses during this economy. Sadly, it’ll probably be for sale for quite some time.