Sign in front of the former Ramada Inn in Petersburg, Virginia by the C.A. Harrison Companies, advertising a planned renovation and rehabilitation of the property that was never built.
This facility was built in 1973, and operated as a Ramada Plaza Hotel (i.e. a big Ramada Inn) for most of its time in operation, and later went independent as the Fort Lee Regency before closing in 2012. It has been vacant ever since. There were plans at one time to renovate and reopen the hotel, and a sign was standing in front of the hotel to that effect, but those plans ultimately fell through, and the city is now going through the legal process to have the building demolished.
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