Snazzy hotel to be neighbor of Bentonville art museum
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Laura Lee Brown, from left, Mayor Bob McCaslin and Steve Wilson from 21c Museum Hotels talk Tuesday following a news conference at Compton Gardens in Bentonville. Wilson announced plans for a 21c Museum Hotel near the northeast corner of Bentonville square. The 4-foot-tall red plastic penguin is part of a moving exhibit at the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Ky.
Photo by David Frank Dempsey
Creators of a boutique hotel intended to revitalize downtown areas and display modern art will team with the Walton family and a nonprofit organization to bring a $28 million hotel and art gallery to downtown Bentonville, the partners announced Tuesday.
The 130-room 21c Museum Hotel, scheduled to open in 2012, will be built on A Street north of the downtown Square and a few blocks south of the site of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which is under construction on a 100 wooded acres, said Steve Wilson.
Wilson and his wife, Laura Lee Brown, self-described philanthropists and arts patrons, designed and opened the original 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Ky., in 2006 in a vacant building in a ...
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