Langren Hotel (Photo Courtesy UNC Asheville)
From his office, [Glenn] Wilcox has been watching demolition of the parking garage across College Street where he and new partner John McKibbon have plans for an AC Marriot Hotel. McKibbon previously developed the Aloft Hotel on Biltmore Avenue only two blocks away.
After the AC opens in July 2016, Wilcox and McKibbon will turn their attention to a rehab of the 50-year-old BB&T Building into a boutique hotel and luxury condos on the top floors.
Wilcox dismisses worries that Asheville is building a glut of downtown hotels. "If you build it, they will come. It's all 'location, location, location.' John McKibbon told me I had the two most promising properties in the Southeast."
And he finds irony in the fact that the AC Hotel will fit the same footprint as the former Langren Hotel demolished a half century ago. "We tore down a eight-story hotel to build a parking garage, and then we tore down a parking garage to build a nine-story hotel."
Source: "With View From the Top, Wilcox Keeps Faith in Future" by Dale Neal, Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, North Carolina), 16 February 2015.
Langren Hotel (Photo Courtesy UNC Asheville)
From his office, [Glenn] Wilcox has been watching demolition of the parking garage across College Street where he and new partner John McKibbon have plans for an AC Marriot Hotel. McKibbon previously developed the Aloft Hotel on Biltmore Avenue only two blocks away.
After the AC opens in July 2016, Wilcox and McKibbon will turn their attention to a rehab of the 50-year-old BB&T Building into a boutique hotel and luxury condos on the top floors.
Wilcox dismisses worries that Asheville is building a glut of downtown hotels. "If you build it, they will come. It's all 'location, location, location.' John McKibbon told me I had the two most promising properties in the Southeast."
And he finds irony in the fact that the AC Hotel will fit the same footprint as the former Langren Hotel demolished a half century ago. "We tore down a eight-story hotel to build a parking garage, and then we tore down a parking garage to build a nine-story hotel."
Source: "With View From the Top, Wilcox Keeps Faith in Future" by Dale Neal, Asheville Citizen-Times (Asheville, North Carolina), 16 February 2015.