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By Scott Baltic<\/em><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Foundry Hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

Charlestowne Hotels, of Charleston, S.C., has opened The Foundry Hotel, an 87-key, Curio Collection by Hilton\u2013flagged boutique property in Asheville, N.C. The approximately $30 million property is partly new, partly an adaptive reuse of a 20th-century steel foundry, all within view of the Blue Ridge Mountains.<\/p>\n

Sited at 51 S. Market St. in Asheville\u2019s historic neighborhood The Block, The Foundry Hotel combines two new buildings with three structures from the foundry, in total roughly 91,000 square feet, a Hilton spokesperson told Commercial Property Executive<\/em>. The property features original hardwood floors, exposed bricks and beams, steel-star fastenings and industrial-style windows.<\/p>\n

The 87 guestrooms include 12 suites ranging from 315 to 1,200 square feet. On-site amenities include the Workshop Lounge, regionally inspired dining at Benne on Eagle, and a retail marketplace with hiking gear and locally sourced items, as well as 4,000 square feet of flexible indoor and outdoor event space. The hotel\u2019s house car is a Tesla Model X.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Foundry Hotel<\/p><\/div>\n

Five-time James Beard nominee John Fleer will lead Benne on Eagle, a 100-seat restaurant offering dishes \u201chonoring the contributions African Americans have made to Appalachian cuisine.<\/em>\u201d Workshop Lounge, a second-floor lobby bar, offers brews from nearby BearWaters Brewing and cocktails featuring locally distilled spirits.<\/p>\n

Charlestowne\u2019s other adaptive-reuse projects have included The Collector Luxury Inn & Gardens in St. Augustine, Fla.; The Fairlane Hotel in Nashville; Hotel Clermont in Atlanta; and The Bristol Hotel in Bristol, Va.<\/p>\n

In January, Hilton announced plans to expand its Curio Collection brand<\/a> to more than 100 properties worldwide by 2020.<\/p>\n

Maybe it\u2019s those mountains<\/h2>\n

In 2016, Buncombe County, N.C., attracted 3.8 million overnight guests, not bad for a county with only 238,000 in population at the 2010 census. Tourism is so important to the county that one in seven jobs there is supported by tourism, and without tourism, the county\u2019s unemployment would be 15.2 percent, according to the Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau.<\/p>\n

The hotel sector in Asheville, which has more than 1,800 guestrooms in the pipeline through 2019, is nonetheless potentially controversial. In October, Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer questioned whether taxpayers were subsidizing infrastructure improvements that are being driven by tourism and said she was considering a temporary hotel ban, the Asheville Citizen Times<\/em> reported last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The latest Curio Collection by Hilton is The Foundry Hotel, an upscale 87-key project in Asheville, N.C. 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