{"id":11504,"date":"2016-05-20T01:50:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T05:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=11504"},"modified":"2016-09-11T23:33:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T03:33:14","slug":"budget-inn-200-zimalcrest-drive-may-2016-temporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=11504","title":{"rendered":"Budget Inn, 200 Zimalcrest Drive: May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I noticed driving by the other day that the old Howard Johnson's<\/a> on Zimalcrest Drive at Bush River has closed for remodeling. I believe it has most been under a number of flags since the Hojo<\/i> days, but most recently, it was a Budget Inn<\/i>.<\/p>\n

This place is a bit unusual in that it has a strip club Thee Whiskey Tavern<\/i> operating out of a suite of rooms. I have never heard of such an arrangement elsewhere (and don't know if the club is closed during the remodel). You will also remember that the attached restaurant Punjabi Dhaba<\/a> suffered a fire in early 2014, and has since been torn down.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 28 June 2016<\/b> -- Renovations continue:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 30 August 2016<\/b> -- Well this place is open again, now as Hawthorn Suites by Wyndham<\/i> which at least sounds a bit more upscale this time. I will have to check to see if Thee Whiskey Tavern<\/i> is still co-located or not:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 11 September 2016<\/b> -- Well Thee Whiskey Tavern<\/i> is still there, something of an anomaly in a property that's trying to go a little bit more upmarket than Budget Inn<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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I noticed driving by the other day that the old Howard Johnson's on Zimalcrest Drive at Bush River has closed for remodeling. I believe it has most been under a number of flags since the Hojo days, but most recently, it was a Budget Inn. This place is a bit unusual in that it has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1960,210,13,204,205],"class_list":["post-11504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-200-zimalcrest-drive","tag-bush-river-road","tag-business","tag-hotel","tag-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}