In Charlottesville and Atlanta, John Dewberry is known for half-built towers

Some call it the Rat Hotel.

In the downtown retail district of Charlottesville, Virginia, a building shell has sat exposed to the elements for more than 10 years. What was initially planned as five-star accommodations for visitors to the city has remained concrete and steel.The only signs of life, Charlottesville resident and journalist David McNair said, are rodents.

“You walk by at night and they’re pouring out of the bottom of the hotel,” McNair said…

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