MOUNT PLEASANT — A Missouri developer seeking to build its second Charleston-area lodging at the site of a former budget hotel earned a key approval this week from the Town of Mount Pleasant .

The boarded-up 131-room Days Inn at 261 Johnnie Dodds Blvd. near the base of the Ravenel Bridge will eventually be razed to make way for a 170-room, six-story Drury-branded hotel.

Charles Drury, director of development at Drury Development Corp., said the family-owned company has a “long-term outlook when we come into a community.”

“We hope to be there for a lifetime, so it's very important for us to take into consideration what's important to the community,” Drury said, thanking the town's design review board for their feedback throughout the process. “It gave us a moment to pause and allow us

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