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IT TOOK IMAGINATION for Wilco bassist John Stirratt to picture a great art and design hotel in the run-down motor court he encountered in 2014. He was on a real estate scouting trip to North Adams, Massachusetts, where his band has hosted a music and arts festival since 2010. “There were doors ajar—it was basically a squat at that point,” recalls Stirratt, then hunting with his future partners for a home for his first hospitality project. Though the rooms were in bad shape, the bones of the buildings were strong, and the…