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Photographs February 2005: Bob Venditti
 
 
 
Photo October 2002: Phil Edwards
 
 
Photographs February 2005: Bob Venditti
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photographs 2005-2007: Robby Delius
 
HoJo's No More ...

Stripped of its larger-than-life "HOWARD JOHNSON" letters and name in May of 2005, the Greensboro-Coliseum Motor Lodge continued serving the motoring public until March 21, 2006 as the High Rise Hotel.
 
 
 
 
 
Photograph February 2005: Bob Venditti
 
 
Photographs 2005-2007: Robby Delius
 
Purchased in 2005 by Bhupen Patel for only $2.8 million, he will have reportedly spent an estimated $10 million in the process of remaking the former HoJo's into a Doubletree Hotel. The Hooters that had operated a busy unit in the former HJ Restaurant was relocated, and its space will be refurbished into a low volume upscale restaurant that will primarily serve hotel guests. Even as the complex remains, it will have become only a bland version of its former self and joins the long list of Landmarks lost...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Photos October 2007: Phil Edwards
 
 
 
 
 
Into its tenth year, the former Howard Johnson's turned Doubletree Hotel sported an updated logo and its J. Butler's Bar & Grille became Gate City Sports Grill in November of 2017.
 
Photograph December 2017: John Bullock
 
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