Work Begins on Concord's New Hotel, June 21, 1925

Work to be Started Monday on the New Hotel for Concord. . . The City’s Dream for Years Begins to Materialize—To Be Completed in Nine Months. . . Some Think It Will Not Take the Contractors as Long a Time as That as They Are Real Builders

Work will be started Monday digging the excavation for the new hotel and Concord’s dream for years, a vision of a beautiful and modern hostelry, commensurate with the needs of the city, will begin to materialize.

Already, a steam shovel has been hauled to the corner of the lot next to the Reed property in order that it may be in readiness for an early start at the opening hour Monday and workmen are in the city ready to operate it.

Excavations will immediately be followed by actual building operations and in nine months or less, the new structure, rearing itself above the surrounding buildings, will be ready for occupancy. The contractors, Hunkin-Conkey, are confident that they can finish the job in the allotted period of time, nine months. One prominent official has been quoted as saying that, in his opinion, the work will not take that long.

The Hunkin-Conkey Company is one of the largest contracting firms in the country. Their main office is at Clevland with a branch office in Charlotte. One of the first buildings which they constructed in this section of the state was the Johnston Building in Charlotte. More recently they have completed the Hotel Poinsette in Greenville, valued at over a million dollars.

The contract for the construction of the new Concord Hotel was let two weeks ago at a figure around $300,000. The committee which had charge of letting the contract was composed of George L. Patterson, L.D. Coltrane, T.D. Maness and T.H. Webb. W.L. Stoddardt, architect, was in conference with the committee during its deliberations.

P.A. Lobmiller, vice president of the Hunkin-Conkey Co., was in the city yesterday getting plans in shape for the beginning of the work. With him were A.R. Turney, Southern manager, and Cap Erwin, official in the company. Mr. Turney will have active charge of the work of erecting the hotel. His headquarters is Charlotte.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, June 20, 1925

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