National Hotel (Chișinău)

[1][2] Although the company promised to invest in the National Hotel, the building was left to decay as its ownership continued to change multiple times and the Great Recession hit.

[1] A decorative fountain in front of the former hotel made news in 2018 when a city deputy mayor ordered that a large amount of trash in it be cleaned.

[5] In 2021, the National Hotel's new owner Vladimir Andronachi asked the local government for permission to demolish the building and replace it with office space.

[2] As of 2024[update], the demolition plans remained on hold as a result of the legal case and preservationists advocating to preserve the building due to its history and architecture.

As a result, the former lobby was marred with human excrement and broken bottles, and many of the hotel's fixtures, wiring, windows, and decorative marble tiles had been stripped.

Commenting on the National Hotel's fall from a flagship property to effectively abandoned, The New York Times wrote in 2024 that the building was "a study in the post-Soviet dysfunctions of one of Europe's poorest countries".