City hotel landscape changing

Sunday February 23, 2014

City hotel landscape changing

Daily Mail Business Editor

Craig Cunningham

Albany, N.Y.-based BBL Hospitality spent $15 million to renovate the Four Points Sheraton, a 12-story hotel, 176-room hotel, formerly known as the Charleston House Hotel.

CHARLESTON, WV -- Charleston's hotel landscape is changing.

In the past year, two city hotels have changed brands while construction continues on a new one in the heart of downtown. Meanwhile, plans are moving along for a new hotel along MacCorkle Avenue in Kanawha City.

In January, Charleston officials celebrated the grand opening of the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, formerly the Charleston House Hotel, located at 600 Kanawha Boulevard East.

Albany, N.Y.-based BBL Hospitality spent $15 million to renovate the hotel. Work took just over a year to complete and involved in the replacement of nearly everything in the hotel.

"There was a lot of blood, sweat and tears that went into this," Keith McClanahan, senior vice president of BBL Carlton of Charleston, said at the grand opening ceremony.

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