New Holiday Inn Express downtown/Midtown?
BY Jeanne Bonner • October 5, 2009
Post and comments first appeared here on Atlanta Unsheltered.
I’m guessing by now everyone has spotted the giant Holiday Inn Express banner (above) draped over a building on Peachtree Street that has been vacant since the beginning of time. Feels like that long!
A friend mentioned it to me on Friday, and then I saw it myself over the weekend from the deck of F.A.B. on Ivan Allen Boulevard.
I’ve not had time to snap a picture but it might be worth a detour if the hotel chain is announcing a new location. (Update: PHOTO above)
It appears to be shouting its message from the mountaintops!
I don’t know the history of the building but it’s one of those old haunts on Peachtree, between downtown and Midtown, near Max Lagers, that’s been abandoned for a long time.
I’m sure some astute reader will have some background info for us!
Why would I love it if Holiday Inn built a hotel on that site?
Infill, infill, infill!
(Maybe I could have bumper sticks made, you know like Drill, Baby Drill! Except totally different.)
We’ve built the city; it’s not going away; now let’s finish coloring in the figures we’ve already drawn.
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It’s the old medical arts building, designed by atlanta architect g. lloyd preacher and built in 1927. It has been abandoned for about 20 years. I’m hoping Holiday Inn will rehab it for their hotel (like with the Glenn Building, the Ellis, Hotel Indigo, which are all in historic buildings).