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The Landmark Hotel is a proposed nine-story, 100-room luxury hotel to be located on the Downtown Mall. The site is a former bank building owned by Wachovia after it purchased Central Fidelity.
The real estate and project is owned by Halsey Minor[1][2]. Stephen Blaine is his attorney for the project[3].
Prior owners of the project included Lee Danielson and Oliver Kuttner, and other names used for the project in the past are The Beacon-Charlottesville and Hotel Charlottesville[4].
Approvals
The Charlottesville Board of Architectural Review approved the plans on February 20, 2008[4].
BAR granted conditional permission to tear down the black granite façade in October 2008[5].
Construction
At groundbreaking on March 11, 2008, the opening was scheduled for July 2009[6][1].
Financing controversy threatened the project as early as November 2008, and Silverton Bank, the project's lender, eventually was subject of a bank failure[7].
Lee Danielson was the developer of the project until Minor fired him in December 2008[2].
Construction stopped in January of 2009[3].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Danielson, Minor break ground on ‘Landmark’ Dave McNair, The Hook, March 11 2008, retrieved 26 Aug 2009.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Landmark Hotel developer fired Brian McNeill, Daily Progress, December 6, 2008, retrieved 26 Aug 2009.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Landmark mess: Hotel construction scales back, Lindsay Barnes, The Hook Jan 13 2009, retrieved 26 Aug 2009.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 ONARCHITECTURE- Bright idea: Danielson's Beacon's back in town, Dave McNair, The Hook, March 1, 2007, retrieved 26 Aug 2009.
- ↑ Landmark Hotel developer given permission to take down black granite facade, Sean Tubbs, Charlottesville Tomorrow, October 22, 2008, retreived 26 Aug. 2009
- ↑ New Details about New Luxury Hotel, Joanna Shrewsbury, NBC 29, March 11 2008, retrieved 26 Aug 2009.
- ↑ Landmark letdown: Hotel project’s lender folds, Lindsay Barnes, The Hook, May 1 2009, retrieved 26 Aug 2009.