{"id":19457,"date":"2021-09-29T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=19457"},"modified":"2021-09-29T22:35:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T02:35:44","slug":"red-lion-inn-suites-1539-horseshoe-drive-late-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=19457","title":{"rendered":"Red Lion Inn &#038; Suites, 1539 Horseshoe Drive: Late 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740013.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740013_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740013_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740013_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740009.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740009_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740009_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740009_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740010.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740010_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740010_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740010_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740011_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740011_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740011_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740012_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740012_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740012_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740014_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740014_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740014_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740015_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740015_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740015_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740016.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740016_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740016_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740016_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740017_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740017_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740017_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740018.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740018_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740018_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740018_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740019.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740019_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740019_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740019_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740020_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740020_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740020_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740021_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740021_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740021_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740022.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1740022_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1740022_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1740022_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I last posted about this place in 2008 when it had closed as <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=213\">Travelodge Suites<\/a>.  After that <i>Benedict College<\/i> had a plan to use it for overflow dorm space but that fell through because of regulatory issues.  I had the impression they had actually bought it by that point though I may be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, at some point thereafter it opened as <i>Red Lion Inn & Suites<\/i>, apparently in the 2015 timeframe, though I was unaware of it.  The place got pretty mixed reviews on the hotel sites, some of them unsurprising in a building that dates from the 1960s.  The last proof I can find of the place being open is a Memorial Day 2020 post on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/Redlion.fortjacks\/posts\/\">Facebook<\/a> page, though a vistor post from the <i>Chamber of Commerce<\/i> suggests it could have been open into November of 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1539+Horseshoe+Dr,+Columbia,+SC,+SC+29223\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I last posted about this place in 2008 when it had closed as Travelodge Suites. After that Benedict College had a plan to use it for overflow dorm space but that fell through because of regulatory issues. I had the impression they had actually bought it by that point though I may be wrong. At [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[3339,78,234,2411,3132],"class_list":["post-19457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1539-horseshoe-drive","tag-dentsville","tag-horseshoe-drive","tag-hotels","tag-motels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19457","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=19457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}