After a years-long fight to renovate the historic Edgewater hotel that saw countless revisions, legal challenges that reached the state?s highest court and city meetings that stretched well past midnight, there was a prevailing attitude at the project?s ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday morning: This was a long time coming. “We shouldn’t waste any time getting this project started,” project developer Robert Dunn said to open a program inside one of the hotel’s ballrooms. “Someone might change their mind.”