Downtown Plaza Hotel to become Holiday Inn

[Vision 2025]

Sorry to sound harsh, but I wouldn't recommend anyone stay at that hotel. The hotel itself is not pedestrian friendly and its in a corner of downtown that is completely un-pedestrian friendly and very unattractive. The hotel and everything around it is poorly designed. 

At that point on 7th Street, just what Pedestrian traffic are you refeering too? 

[Oil Capital]

Tiki theme? Anyone remember the "Tiki Nook" at the old Trade Winds West?

On topic, I would hope that Holiday Inn can make it work and do it right, and not go glitzy like a lot of the newer botique hotels and then charge outrageous prices. There is an old Holiday Inn in downtown Scottsdale that has now become the Mondrian by Morgan Hotels. During season they charge about $300/night catering to the younger crowd. With the hit the economy has taken, it will be intersting to see how some of these botique hotels do.

If it's a Holiday Inn, it will not be glitzy.  The two are pretty much mutually exclusive.

[TheArtist]

At that point on 7th Street, just what Pedestrian traffic are you refeering too? 

Uuuummm exactly.

[Ibanez]

They need to complete the renewal of Denver and rid it of the blight that is the old Amerada Hess Building. God that building is ugly.

They can keep the parking garage next to it though. Need more of those.

[Transport_Oklahoma]

Hey I spent hundreds of nights there from 1999-2007.  My employer had a contract with them.

It became a Ramada right when we started staying there and then reverted to the Downtown Plaza name in about 2006.

There is a multi-story underground park garage beneath it.  The pool is above that.

Spend a few million to update it and it could be a nice mid-scale place.

[custosnox]

This place isn't too bad, as long as you can get past the hauntings on the second and top floor (or so the people who have worked there say). lol

[sgrizzle]

Anyone seen this building recently. The new owners mean business when it comes to remodeling. Instead of fixing up they gutted the place, pulled the sides off the hotel (the window/AC units) and are putting in new windows.

[OpenYourEyesTulsa]

I drove past it today coming back from lunch.  I am glad they are doing it right and getting rid of everything.  That place was a dump but it was the only option for the mid price range downtown.

[waterboy]

This place isn't too bad, as long as you can get past the hauntings on the second and top floor (or so the people who have worked there say). lol

I was working in the nearby Cities Service building back during the recession of 1974/5. At least one guy jumped from one of the upper floors one summer. Have the local ghost chasers spent any time there?

[dbacks fan]

I was working in the nearby Cities Service building back during the recession of 1974/5. At least one guy jumped from one of the upper floors one summer. Have the local ghost chasers spent any time there?

It's interesting that you brought that up. I was doing work for Vintage Petroleum back in '94 or '95 when I heard this blood curdling scream come from an office near where I was working. I went to see what had happened and the women in the office had just watced as a woman jumped out of the Adam's Mark onto the Williams Center Green area to the east of the hotel. I think it took her a couple of weeks before she copuld go back to work and actually had her office moved to another area of the 42nd floor of the tower.

[custosnox]

I was working in the nearby Cities Service building back during the recession of 1974/5. At least one guy jumped from one of the upper floors one summer. Have the local ghost chasers spent any time there?

I wouldn't put any faith in our local "ghost chasers".  I've known most of them, and there methods are less then desirable.  But beyond that, none have been out there that I know about.  My aunt ran the bar there while it was the Ramada, and I have heard all kinds of ghost stories about this place.  I may be a skeptic, but I still love telling and hearing ghost stories lol.

[Townsend]

It's interesting that you brought that up. I was doing work for Vintage Petroleum back in '94 or '95 when I heard this blood curdling scream come from an office near where I was working. I went to see what had happened and the women in the office had just watced as a woman jumped out of the Adam's Mark onto the Williams Center Green area to the east of the hotel. I think it took her a couple of weeks before she copuld go back to work and actually had her office moved to another area of the 42nd floor of the tower.

That was my friend's first pick up as a mortician.

His description was horrible.

[Conan71]

That was my friend's first pick up as a mortician.

His description was horrible.

Yeah, I far prefer picking women up in bars.

[custosnox]

was digging through some old newspaper clippings and came across one from June 30, 1964 discusing the beginning construction of the new Holiday Inn Hotel.

[Kenosha]

I don't know about ghosts or hauntings, but I sure hope they give that place a good scrubbing. I think the last, most frequent use of that place was for the local swingers club "meet-and-greets". 

And I am not talking about swing dancing. 


*shudders*

NTTAWWT.