Here Are the Plans to Redo I-95’s Notorious City Inn
The abandoned City Inn, which for years was a haven for prostitute and drug activity on the edge of I-95, is being brought back to respectability as a Holiday Inn, its original brand. Architect William Lai of Dynamica Architecture sent over these proposed renderings of how the renovated building might ultimately look.The mod design is a vast improvement over the existing structure, although it appears the former rooftop lounge is being encased in screens and not restored to its old use. With a little inspiration, just think of how much of a dive bar that place could be!
The City Inn on I-95, Bleak and Abandoned, Will Reopen as a Holiday Inn Again
One of the ugliest of the uglies on I-95, the abandoned ten story City Inn, is being renovated to become a Holiday Inn, its original hotel flag. A new ‘coming soon’ sign has appeared on the hotel’s east side facing the highway. Starting with that The Next Miami found some more info in a Miami Herald feature on abandoned buildings published a few years ago. It was built in 1969, just after the new I-95, from which it hoped to attract sleepy tourists and those taking longer Florida Keys-bound vacations. Instead, it couldn’t compete with the highways and a deteriorating neighborhood, becoming a Days Inn for a while, then the off-brand City Inn and popular prostitute and shady-person hang out, and now a halfway gutted-out carcass.
