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Article: Obie to build high-end inn Hotel at Fifth Street Public Market will be downtown Eugene's first since 1982.(Business)(Hotel at Fifth Street Public Market will be downtown Eugene's first since 1982)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 6, 2008
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Byline: Joe Mosley The Register-Guard
The Fifth Street Public Market may have lost a shoe store, but it's gaining an upscale "boutique" hotel.
Market owner Brian Obie announced Friday that he will build downtown Eugene's first new hotel since 1982, by converting the now-vacant Nike Store and some adjacent space, and adding a fourth floor to the entire hotel footprint. The 54-room facility - The Inn at the Market - will aim for a room price and amenity level "modestly above" any other local hotel, he said.
"It will be certainly a different quality and a different niche than what has existed in Eugene," Obie said.
"It will be an ...