LONGMONT The Best Western Plus Plaza in Longmont, which has welcomed guests for nearly four decades, could be transformed into residential housing after this month’s sale of the 210-room inn to a developer specializing in transforming hotels into apartments.
Vivo Apt Longmont LLC, a subsidiary of California-based Vivo Living, bought the 39-year-old Best Western Plus Plaza Hotel at 1900 Ken Pratt Blvd. from CO Hotel LLC, an affiliate of Chester, Virginia.-based Shamin Hotels, for $15.4 million.
At the time, Shamin said it planned to renovate the hotel and the 36,000-square-foot Plaza Convention Center, which it had agreed to manage under a deal struck with owner Chernoff Boulder Properties LLC. But less than a year after taking over management duties,