Rumor alert: We got an unsubstantiated tip submitted to us (thank you to our readers!) that the 126-room Magnolia Hotel with first floor restaurant and off-site valet parking at 500 S. Magnolia Ave (MAP) may have had a name change imposed on them. The hotel to be built adjacent to the Dr Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, according to the tip we received, was handed a legal notice from an existing Magnolia Hotel brand. The hotel is now moving forward with the new name of Anderson Hotel.
It was recently announced about this unbuilt hotel is paying the City of Orlando $50,000 to re-route the City's planned bike trail to go closer to the hotel below the State Road-408 overpass.
