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investments in a hotel would not materialize, the site would be kept as a parking lot. Later that month, the board aimed to build a $ 4.7 million hotel with 315 bedrooms and suites, 10 to 12 stories, a 500-person ballroom, six retail stores, and self-service parking for 260 cars. By July, the price changed to $ 7 million, with 12 stories, to be completed by late 1962. It was to be the first hotel built in
Downtown Columbus in over 30 years (after the Fort Hayes Hotel in the mid-1920s). The basement would be used by civic organizations. The building's first story would have retail stores and hotel entrances on Gay and Third Streets, with a drive-in entrance on Third Street. The level would also have kitchens and private dining spaces. The second floor would have a ballroom, restaurant dining room, and bar. The third to fifth floors would have 270 parking spaces, accessed by an automobile elevator. The sixth and seventh would have about 50,000 square feet of office space. The eighth through twelfth floors would hold about 325 guest rooms and suites. A pool and garden on the eighth floor would be exposed to the sky via a four-story central lightwell.
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European hotels. The hotel lost its Sheraton franchise in fall 1986, and the owners hoped to use half of the building for condominiums. That plan was scrapped by January 1987, with new plans to sell half of the building's rooms as private investments, to be rented and maintained by the hotel's management company. The hotel was $ 14 million in debt at this point, with not enough demand for hotel rooms in Downtown Columbus. The hotel closed on December 1, 1987, gradually beginning in June, including canceling reservations, closing its restaurant, and reducing to a skeleton staff to operate the hotel. Multiple plans to sell the building collapsed, and it was purchased by
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around 1989 in a sheriff's sale. A plan in 1990 was to convert the building into apartments; other ideas included a health club, a high-rise parking garage, and a trading company headquarters. In
January 1996, it was purchased by HBE Corp., parent company of the Adam's Mark, part of an upscale hotel
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Columbus Plaza Hotel was approved by the city's planning commission in September 1961. Executives began to inspect hotels in other U.S. cities, anticipating construction to begin once the Virginia Hotel and Citizen Building were razed. The Virginia Hotel closed on August 10, 1961; resident made
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Employees Retirement Board of Ohio (SERS) in January 1960, as an investment purchase. The board would contrinue the hotel's operation. By this point, the building had five stories, 150 rooms, and measured 127.5 ft by 187.5 ft. In April 1961, the board
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January 1965 under two temporary agreements and later under a long-term lease. The hotel's name was changed to the Sheraton Columbus Motor Hotel in May of that year, and official conversion into a Sheraton began in June, and included numerous branding changes, office expansions, and other
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Employees Retirement Board would have the Virginia Hotel closed, have the Columbus Citizen building's tenants vacated, and the buildings demolished. If
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