{"id":2451,"date":"2008-08-11T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2451"},"modified":"2008-08-11T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T19:11:21","slug":"new-beale-street-hotel-a-pipe-dream-according-to-elkington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/11\/new-beale-street-hotel-a-pipe-dream-according-to-elkington\/","title":{"rendered":"New Beale Street hotel a “pipe dream,” according to Elkington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday night, WMC-TV reported that the recently-closed Pat O’Brien’s location on Beale Street might come back to live as a hotel\/restaurant owned by Joe Cooper and Jerry “The King” Lawler.\u00a0 Well, today the Memphis Business Journal reports that the hotel is a “pipe dream,”<\/a> according to John Elkington of Performa, the company that manages Beale Street.<\/p>\n

According to Elkington, there are many reasons why the hotel will never happen.\u00a0 For one, the\u00a0business is in bankruptcy, and anyone wanting to work on the property would therefore\u00a0have to deal with Pat O’s creditors.\u00a0 Also, Cooper and Lawler would need to control the parking lot behind the building in order to create enough space, and Performa does not plan to give up control of that lot.\u00a0 Finally, the state’s historic preservation department would have to approve changes to the building, and there would be a fight against a building taller than the current height (Cooper and Lawler want a 5-story hotel).<\/p>\n

So, it looks like the future of the old Pat O’s building is still up in the air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday night, WMC-TV reported that the recently-closed Pat O’Brien’s location on Beale Street might come back to live as a hotel\/restaurant owned by Joe Cooper and Jerry “The King” Lawler.\u00a0 Well, today the Memphis Business Journal reports that the hotel is a “pipe dream,” according to John Elkington of Performa, the company that manages Beale … Continue reading “New Beale Street hotel a “pipe dream,” according to Elkington”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}