{"id":10038,"date":"2012-11-26T16:22:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T22:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=10038"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:26:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:26:50","slug":"new-hotel-planned-for-former-bismarck-motor-hotel-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/10038\/new-hotel-planned-for-former-bismarck-motor-hotel-space","title":{"rendered":"New Hotel Planned For Former Bismarck Motor Hotel Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was <a title=\"Bismarck Motor Hotel Destroyed By Fire\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/4846\/bismarck-motor-hotel-destroyed-by-fire\">nearly two years ago<\/a> that a devastating fire destroyed most of the Bismarck Motor Hotel, located on east Main Avenue in Bismarck. While some of that hotel did survive, a new proposal has been submitted to the City of Bismarck for a brand-new motel and storage units to be built on the site, tentatively called Main Avenue Motel &amp; Storage Units.<\/p>\n<p>Two proposals have now been submitted, one that would be built around the surviving building and one, the most recent plan, that would demolish what&#8217;s left of the iconic 1950s-style hotel. In either case, it would appear that a new motel will soon appear at this spot.<\/p>\n<p>The January 24, 2011 fire that destroyed roughly 1\/3 of Bismarck Motor Hotel was ruled accidental, but the actual cause was never determined. At the time, 55 people were staying at the motel &#8211; most of them long-term residents living at the motel. The fire was first reported at 4:30am. The hotel had first opened in or around 1951.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to BisManCafe for further updates.<\/p>\n<p><em>UPDATE (2\/17\/2013): The finalized plan includes demolition of what remains of the Bismarck Motor Hotel to construct 3 new buildings. The new hotel will sport 80 rooms that feature kitchenettes as well as 56 rental garages, the <a href=\"http:\/\/bismarcktribune.com\/news\/columnists\/jessica-holdman\/bismarck-motor-hotel-being-rebuilt\/article_9e8b7354-76ea-11e2-87de-0019bb2963f4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bismarck Tribune reports<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nearly two years ago that a devastating fire destroyed most of the Bismarck Motor Hotel, located on east Main Avenue in Bismarck. While some of that hotel did survive, a new proposal has been submitted to the City of Bismarck for a brand-new motel and storage units to be built on the site, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,2409,216,364],"tags":[1002,253],"class_list":["post-10038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-business-news","category-featured","category-home-page","tag-bismarck-motor-hotel","tag-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}