I did want to cover this one as it's part of dismantling the FM 60 page on Carbon-izer, and while I find hotels interesting, there's not a lot to say about this one. 901 University Drive East has been Days Inn by Wyndham College Station University Drive since December 2016. It has been associated with Best Western for most of its existence. From what I can tell it opened in 1983 as The Inn at Chimney Hill (back when Best Western was more an affiliation and not a brand)1 and while it did have an unbranded in-house restaurant serving Chinese food2. In 1986 it was foreclosed on, with the paper3 noting the University Drive East/Tarrow area was hit hardest by the recession. In 1988, the restaurant area was retooled again as Crepe Myrtle Bar (with "fine spirits and authentic country food"). Things didn't change much at the hotel, it was still a Best Western into 2005, though by 2007 it had lost that branding (just The Inn at Chimney Hill) and in January 2008 was rebranded as a Travelodge under then-owner Rossco Holdings (the old Holiday Inn/Forum reopened as such around the same time). By the early 2010s it took the EconoLodge name, by 2015 was branded as "Executive Inn & Suites and as previously mentioned became Days Inn after that.
Just as a side note, the Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant and the Comfort Suites hotel just to the east of this opened in 2005 and 2006, respectively, but since they are the original tenants they won't be covered anytime soon unless there's a really good reason.4
1. As a general rule, even up until around the mid-2010s, the "real" name of the hotel was below the Best Western sign.
2. The Chinese restaurant concept was changed by 1984, ads stopped talking about "authentic Chinese food" and starting talking about "now serving Omaha steaks".
3. "Hotel, shopping center posted for foreclosure". 7/29/86, The Eagle.
4. If, say, you wanted a sponsored post that would be pushed to the top of the site for a few weeks and be part of the permanent archive, the line is open. Advertisers, this means you!
