Hotel San Carlos

[MJLO]

Here's an interesting article from a couple months back. The owners of Hotel San Carlos

have been in contact with the city about wanting to sell the hotel to a developer who can take it to the next level. Has anyone heard anything about this?

[shrek05]

Yea. Hotel San Carlos wants to be able to compete with the new trendy hotels going up downtown (Sheraton and W.) and to do so they need renovations. I believe they are looking a a 30+ story tower and a top floor pool. There are a number of renderings at www.azcentral.com

[MJLO]

I give this one to my Pheonix experts, what's the pheasability of this one going on in to completion?

[colin]

Maybe I'm an idiot, but is this San Carlos somehow related to the San Carlos in Chandler?

[tombarnes]

You may be thinking of the San Marcos in Chandler. I'm unaware of any relation.

[colin]

San Marcos!!

I like that place.

[loftguy]

I think it is highly improbable.....

That building is sacred for it's Historic charm...

Although I understand the need for the owner to spice it up to keep it competative-

Historic Preservation will never allow for such a beotchization...

(At least I would never imagine so)

[MJLO]

Is there historic preservation here? I never knew, since so much of what goes on here is not historic.

[shrek05]

yes the Hotel San Carlos has historic status in Arizona (there are many neighborhoods throughoout the phoenix area are given the historic status.) They worry that by making it more modernized, it would strip away the historic title, so instead, they are just making an add on and not actually changing anything about the currenty building