The placement of a hotel has residents of nearby Pierremont Place riled. They showed up to both sound off and support their attorney at the latest Metropolitan Planning Commission meeting.
The area has been an epicenter of hotel news. The subdivision is near the perpetually unfinished hotel at 1419 East 70th, and closer still to the newly-opened Homewood Suites by Hilton on Fern Loop.
What homeowners are opposing is a new Residence Inn by Marriott on Fern Loop. Vision Development’s Amit Patel wants to build the new extended stay hotel next to the Hilton Homewood Suites that his company recently finished.
About 115 owners in the 132-lot Pierremont Place subdivision on Fern Avenue signed a petition opposing the new hotel, and 87 of the homeowners hired attorney Geoff Westmoreland to fight it. They hoped to win the hotel battle in Round One at the Nov. 4 MPC meeting…