Development group closes on uptown land where hotel will rise

A hotel group has closed on land in uptown Charlotte where it will build the city’s first JW Marriott.

Marlotte Hotel LLC, affiliated with Indiana-based White Lodging, paid $6.3 million for a portion of the block where Ally Charlotte Center is under construction. White Lodging is building a 21-story, 381-room JW Marriott hotel at the corner of Stonewall and College streets as part of the mixed-use development, which also includes the 26-story Ally Charlotte Center office tower by Crescent Communities.

Charlotte-based…