I guess "goofy one-off hotel" would be another valid rationale. Hotels have high fire code standards, so why not go vertical? And all kinds of seemingly arbitrary hotel locations are rooted in, oh I don't know, Bureau of Indian Affairs determinations of reservation boundaries.
My other favorite Carolinas example is the abandoned-before-it-opened, 21-story Heritage USA Hotel in Fort Mill, S.C., arbitrary location determined by Jeebus and/or his philandering messenger:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/heritage-usa-2
The megachurch at its base is still in use, under new leadership, and a few small buildings that were at the entrance are still there. Most of the circa-1978 Christian amusement park has been demolished and redeveloped into conventional townhouses.
Speaking of televangelists...
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Now called Cityplex Towers the tallest is 648 ft tall. Oral Roberts University is in the foreground.
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OMG, currently listed at $14 PSF (per year). That's like warehouse rent! Has to be the cheapest 50th-floor+ office in the USA.