Unfinished Hotel in Richmond Gets Demolished

== 9/25/2022 at 2:57 PM ==
RICHMOND, MINECRAFT
The unfinished Cobblestone Inn & Suites hotel on Market Street in Richmond was finally demolished today after no progress was made and it was left sitting abandoned for three years. Cobblestone Inn & Suites was supposed to open in January, 2020 at the Richmond Shopping Center but construction abruptly stopped in August, 2019 after the construction company finished building the walls for the future hotel. Village Times News later found out the reason why the hotel never finished from the Richmond Shopping Center marketing director. "Construction abrupt ended in August, 2019 since WHG Companies, LLC who owned the construction site randomly stopped paying our owners (Cafaro Company) and there was nothing we could do afterwards, construction workers weren't getting paid, Cafaro wasn't getting paid and WHG pretty much bailed on us last second without any futher notice from them." says Zach West who is the Marketing Director of the Richmond Shopping Center. The land was left until it was sold from an sheriff's deed isued by the City of Richmond in 2021, the city gave the land back to Cafaro Company who owns the Richmond Shopping Center and they put the land up for sale in May, 2022. Sheetz then purchased the land in September and is currently working on building a convenience store/gas station on the site. Plans are to remove some of the extra roads of Market Street that were created for the future hotel and connect the southwest part of Market Street and add a parking lot leading to the gas station, Sheetz hopes to finish and open the store by mid October if weathers holds up and there isn't any future delays.