Landmark sold at auction; new owner hints at 'European subtlety' in its future design

6/19/12 * The Daily Progress [full story]

It could be considered a Hail Mary play, but successful Atlanta developer John Dewberry believes his company can make big gains in the Charlottesville hotel industry with Monday’s purchase of the skeletal Landmark Hotel at a bankruptcy court auction.

Dewberry, a standout quarterback at Georgia Tech from 1983 to 1985 and a former player in the Canadian Football League, bought the unfinished structure for $6.25 million, bidding against J.B. McKibbon, of J.B. McKibbon, Ltd., which is associated with a hotel management group in Tampa, Fla.

Dewberry represented his own Georgia-based Deerfield Square Associates II, LLC, in the bidding.