"This Old Towne section doesn't have a lot of the elements that are necessary. There's not a pharmacy. There's no national chain restaurants," says business owner Kelli Parker. Her restaurant, Neptune's Land and Sea, has sat across from the vacant hotel ever since she opened it three years ago. "It's bittersweet because I had my prom [there]. My class graduated and our prom was there. This whole corridor was jumping," she said.