Asheville Citizen-Times: Proposed 150-room hotel, mixed-use plan heads to city planning board as council date looms (6 August 2019)
Members of the city’s Downtown Commission offered mixed feedback on the project at its July 12 meeting, but ultimately voted 6-3 in approval of it. City Councilman Brian Haynes and board members Andrew Fletcher and Ruth Summers dissented. Several members said they desire projects with more residential units and fewer hotel rooms and others argued the project “seemed too large in scale,” meeting minutes show.