Phase I Arena Renovations
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Fayettenamcanesfan
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I know it’s in an article somewhere, but for the commercial stuff they are building, are there hotels proposed or is it just restaurants, shopping and parking decks? I know I only live in Fayetteville but the only reason I don’t come to games is the 4 hour traffic problem. I’d love to have an affordable hotel in the current area of the parking lot where I can just walk to the arena like I do at Braves games
Future phases will uncles a 150 room hotel. I guess the Ramada on Blue Ridge doesn’t cut it anymore.
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There's 3 hotels within walking distance now ... depending on how far you're willing to walk. The Ramada on Blue Ridge, the 4 Points Sheraton at Trinity and Edwards Mill and (stretching it) a Hyatt Place on Nowell Rd at NC54. There are two other similar properties across NC54 as well. Those are all value/budget options, so I'd guess the on site hotel will be more upscale and thus more expensive. And I'd guess that it might put the Ramada out of business since they get by almost exclusively on State business travel as it is and a lot of that stuff is moving out of town. They'll never survive on just vet school and gameday business since they're hanging by a thread as it is.
Also, my family built and manages one of those hotels and none of that bunch is particularly healthy. Post covid travel has been rough on the mid-price market. They might end up building a hotel on site but it wouldn't shock me if they don't. The numbers might not be there to justify the investment.
Also, my family built and manages one of those hotels and none of that bunch is particularly healthy. Post covid travel has been rough on the mid-price market. They might end up building a hotel on site but it wouldn't shock me if they don't. The numbers might not be there to justify the investment.
HeyKurtz
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Do you get Bonvoy points at Uncle's Hotel?!
Fayettenamcanesfan
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Didn’t realize they were that close. It’s been years since I lived and worked up there. I’ll check it out. Thanks I used to work at the then Bell South on Nowell Rd back in the late 90’s.
IHG
We had seat mates back in the oughts who tried to convince us that the buffet at the Ramada was the cat's banana. Never took them up on their suggestion.
Fayettenamcanesfan
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If you’re friend is feeding his cat bananas, then I’d steer clear of his advice on anything
The buffet at the Ramada has a bit of lore. People under 60 probably don't remember that the Hudson Belk in Crabtree Mall had a buffet called the Capital Buffet. It was so enduringly popular that it ran circles around any other buffet they put in the mall, but Belk eventually decided to get out of the hot food business since their profit margins were higher on normal department store stuff and the buffet took up a ton of space in the store. So, the operator of the Capital Buffet bought out the operation and moved it lock, stock and chafing dish station to the relatively new Ramada on Blue Ridge. Their dedicated fans followed them and word of mouth combined with that weird southern dedication to one's favorite buffet restaurant made it sort of a local legend.
Was it good? I guess, by buffet standards. My grandmother could get her weekly liver and onions, which is the only reason I was ever there.
LJG
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Thanks. Now I'll be barfing in my mouth the rest of the day.
Damned if I know how people can eat that shit!
CanadaCanes
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All this talk about cat's and buffet's and yesteryear lore has me reminiscing back to the days when the Chinese buffet's were rumored to be serving cat on the buffet...we had one in Canada in my youth named the Chinese Buffet of Fu-Lam City which was affectionally nicknamed the "Chinese Buffet of Feline City".
There was a Chinees buffet near my house in New Jersey that was shut down for serving road kill.
When the Olympics were in Korea in 1988, the South Korean government banned the sale of dog meat and removed dog carcasses from public view.
ThinIce
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Maybe the moderators should rename this thread something like, "Carrion Corner" or "CarniLore".
It was also my father in law's favorite, may he rest in peace.
Note that my Grandma hated to make liver and onions (generally with collard greens), but loved to eat it ... thus the trip to the buffet. She like the one at Belk, but really loved Ballentine's Buffet in Cameron Village. I got dragged down there a bunch when I was a kid.
Everything Is Offal?
10/10 Chinese Buffet on Western Blvd is the only local restaurant in my memory to actually be shut down by the department of sanitation. And yet, we had two guys from the office who ate there every Friday after the re-opened.
Pucking Lamplighter
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Dog is served in places in Indonesia, the Philippines, & Papua New Guinea. Just like we do pig pickins for get togethers, fido is the feature in places there. You can tell a difference between a skinny street dog and one that's being raised for the table. Good Dog has a whole different meaning between here & there.
I've never tried dog, not gonna start either. Somebody else can have my share. Cats are safe around me too.
Jim
I've never tried dog, not gonna start either. Somebody else can have my share. Cats are safe around me too.
Jim
My father loved liver when he was a kid. Got to the Navy and it had sat on a steam table for who knows how long drying into shoe leather. But he was friends with one of the cooks, who he had helped apply for cook’s school. So any time there was something on the menu he didn’t like, his friend would make a special meal for him.
dwind
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Which brings up a good point. In the navy you needed friends from certain occupations. One was a cook. He could smuggle real food out. Others were a personal man, medic, dentist, parachute rigger and a photomate.