{"id":32677,"date":"2026-06-08T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/home-town-hotel-owners-share-next-steps-after-devastating-fire\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:19:16","slug":"home-town-hotel-owners-share-next-steps-after-devastating-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/08\/home-town-hotel-owners-share-next-steps-after-devastating-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Home Town&#8217; Hotel Owners Share Next Steps After Devastating Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"what-to-know-box\">\n<h3>What To Know<\/h3>\n<div class=\"what-to-know-content\">\n<ul>\n<li>The owners of the Heirloom Hotel, featured in HGTV\u2019s <em>Home Town: Inn This Together<\/em>, opened up about the project\u2019s next steps.<\/li>\n<li>The hotel is currently being rebuilt after an August 2025 fire damaged the building before its opening.<\/li>\n<li>The owners also addressed whether the reconstruction process would be featured on an HGTV show.<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/home-town-inn-this-together\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Home Town: Inn This Together<\/em><\/a> may have ended on a sad note, but the future of the Heirloom Hotel is bright.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/erin-napier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erin<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/ben-napier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Napier<\/a>\u2018s latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/home-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Home Town<\/em><\/a> spinoff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1267617\/ben-napier-home-town-inn-this-together-behind-the-scenes-photos-hgtv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concluded<\/a> its four-episode run on May 31. The series followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/network\/hgtv\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HGTV<\/a> couple as they worked with their friends \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1263172\/home-town-inn-this-together-mallorie-jim-rasberry-relationship-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jim and Mallorie Rasberry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1264579\/home-town-inn-this-together-josh-nowell-wife-kids-relationship-emily\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Nowell<\/a> \u2014 to transform a historic building in Laurel, Mississippi, into the Heirloom Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The finale episode featured both the completed hotel and the aftermath of the devastating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1211586\/erin-ben-napier-hgtv-hotel-inn-this-together\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2025 fire<\/a> that caused severe damage and delayed the hotel\u2019s opening. Though the group has since announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1212596\/erin-and-ben-napier-hotel-fire-update-home-town-hgtv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plans to rebuild<\/a>, they shared more details about their next steps on the Sunday, June 7, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S7paxZydQUE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episode<\/a> of The Heirloom Podcast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been working for 20 years to make our town shine like we know it can shine. That\u2019s what we\u2019ve all been doing together. I know this, that for the next 20 years, Lord willing, we will continue that work. And so, as far as what\u2019s next for us, I am hopeful for the next season of life,\u201d Nowell told listeners. \u201cAs far as what\u2019s next, I know that I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to come next. I didn\u2019t know we\u2019d be where we are now, but I\u2019m grateful that I\u2019m here with you guys. I\u2019m grateful that I get to do this with y\u2019all. And we\u2019re gonna do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mallorie noted, \u201cWe\u2019re a lot better off than we were 10 months ago,\u201d while Erin added, \u201cGod has a plan that none of us know about, and that is the story of our whole life. Ben\u2019s supposed to be a logger. I\u2019m supposed to be living in Birmingham, designing magazines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"A &quot;Framily&quot; Meeting | 205\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7paxZydQUE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jim stated that he spent the first few months after the hotel fire unsure and unmotivated about the future, but that is no longer the case. \u201cWhile we don\u2019t know exactly what\u2019s next, that doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019re not thinking about it. And so, what this has given us, I think, is an opportunity to kind of dream about what\u2019s next and be thinking about what\u2019s next,\u201d he stated. \u201cIt\u2019s not like something that\u2019s not out there. We have a vision. We have goals for our community, for ourselves, for our state, and we continue to want to make it better. So, I think some really cool things are down the pike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josh went on to tease that the group has been \u201cdoing some planning\u201d and has \u201cideas\u201d in the works. \u201cMany of you have found us because of HGTV. Thank you, thank you, HGTV. Will we do it again on HGTV? We don\u2019t know,\u201d he added, \u201cWe\u2019re gonna see what it is, and then we\u2019ll work to see what that might look like. But we\u2019re very grateful for the network for telling our story, the story of our town to so many people. And yeah, stay tuned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ben also took the opportunity to thank HGTV for their support after the fire. \u201cHGTV is owned by an even bigger company, which is then owned by an even bigger company \u2014 a lot of them would have just said, like, \u2018I don\u2019t care, we\u2019re airing it. We\u2019re airing it as is. It\u2019s good TV.\u2019 Or, \u2018We\u2019re not airing it at all,\u2019 because their product is the show. Their product is not the hotel. It\u2019s not Laurel. It\u2019s nothing like that,\u201d he stated. \u201cAnd so, for them to have held it and then re-edited it to get it to where it is, and RTR for that matter, that was very gracious in a world that is not always gracious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the finale, Erin and Ben have both shared on social media that their friends are still waiting for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1267259\/erin-napier-insurance-plea-home-town-inn-this-together-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insurance claim<\/a> to be approved to help finance the hotel\u2019s reconstruction. The hotel also announced that fans can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1267815\/home-town-inn-this-together-how-fans-can-support-hotel-rebuild-hgtv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support the construction<\/a> by purchasing photo rails made out of the building\u2019s salvaged flooring.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What To Know The owners of the Heirloom Hotel, featured in HGTV\u2019s Home Town: Inn This Together, opened up about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Josh-Nowell-Emily-Nowell-Mallori-Rasberry-Jim-Rasberry-Erin-Napier-Ben-Napier-Instagram-June-5-2026-1420x798.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-sports-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}