This building right here was a Crowne Plaza Hotel located in Kingston, Jamaica. I ...

... remember going to some very interesting events here. Reggae & Dancehall artiste Bounty Killer was a regular. Many popular musicians used to flock the bar especially. The hotel was sold to the United States Embassy by the Financial Sector Adjustment Company ( FINSAC) for $8M USD. Now the building houses US embassy personnel. Many argue the hotel was sold for way to cheap. The building was built by Paul Chen Young’s Eagle Financial Group before it collapsed. The initial cost was a whopping $1B + . The hotel was only runnng for 4 years and it served as a hotel and apartment complex. The hotel wasn’t viable at all. The location really sucked IMO... well there wasn’t much for a tourist to do. It seemed more for the business trip crowd but most of the business takes place in New Kingston & Downtown . I remember saying in my young age “Why would you put a hotel like that here? There is no beach or good scenery”. I saw this building quite often as it was in my stoping ground UPTOWN!