BREAKING NEWS: Construction on "Landmark" could begin this summer

It's been over six years since former "Landmark" hotel property owner Halsey Minor broke ground on the planned boutique hotel for the DTM, and nearly two years since Atlanta-based developer John Dewberry bought the property for $6.25 million at auction, promising at the time to finish construction on the project once a similar hotel project of Dewberry's is completed in Charleston, South Carolina.

Meanwhile, this "black spot" on the DTM landscape, as Dewberry himself called it, has continued to plague the downtown skyline. Indeed, City planner recently deemed the structure "blighted" and forced Dewberry to better secure the site or else risk further action. What's more, sources in Charleston say there has yet to be any serious progress on the hotel project down there.

Many in the community wonder if the hotel will ever get build, and are frustrated that no progress has been made.

"I don't believe he paid the amount he paid just to let this property sit," says Neighborhood development chi…