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A Richmond-area affordable housing nonprofit recently purchased land in Chesterfield County on the site of the former Colbrook Motel, where Black travelers could safely spend the night during the ...
“We’ve owned the hotel for 41 years, and the Magic Fingers was here when we started. We just kept them,” said co-owner Ann Lin. Ann’s mother- and father-in-law immigrated from Taiwan and ...
As of last week, the Agency of Human Services says just over 1,000 households were eligible for the state’s hotel-motel program. That includes about 1,300 adults and 470 children. The ruling ...
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Police are searching for two men who robbed a motel on the east-side early Tuesday morning. It happened around 3 a.m. at the Best Western in the 6800 block of Northeast ...
A developer won city approvals to replace an aging, single-story motel on U.S. Highway 1 in Dania Beach with a six-story, 79-room hotel that would affiliate with an extended-stay hotel chain.
A family-owned lakeside motel in Door County is nominated for a national award in an online survey. Square Rigger Lodge in Jacksonport is one of 20 nominees from across the country in the “Best ...
The existing motel, damaged by coastal storms, is considered flood-prone and an "eyesore." The new three-story building will include 25 parking spaces and address stormwater management concerns.
Hotels and guesthouses have existed for centuries. But the motel was born in 1925 when an architect named Arthur Heineman came up with the idea for a “motor hotel,” shortened to “motel.” ...
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The court later evolved into the Green Parrot Motel, which was renamed the Jay Hawk in 1954 and the Wrangler in 1957 and closed in 1975. Two years later, the complex was razed. The origin of the ...
Which is why, perhaps ironically, it bought and demolished the woebegone Uptown Motel at 620 N. Fifth St., just off Waco Drive. Some living there struggled to live anywhere else. It served as a ...
CHEBOYGAN, MI -- When a Cheboygan motel room cleaner checked under a bed, he found more than he expected. He saw a 3-foot alligator snuggled up next to a baseboard heater. The cleaner made the ...