High-End Crowdfunding Experiment Tries to Turn Vacant School Into Hotel Complex


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If everything is about "local" in the hotel business these days, this development project in Bothell, Washington, is the epitome of such efforts.
It's a sleek public relations move for the McMenamins brothers to label their drive to find investors to convert a vacant school in Bothell, Washington, into a 73-room hotel, meetings' space and restaurants as "crowdfunding," but they are doing something special to revive communities and create attractive destinations nonethele