Downtown Marriott Renovation and CID

[KCMax]

KC Confidential: Downtown Marriott Embarks on Major Redo, 12th Street Jump to Jardine's

Sources say the Marriott is embarking upon a major redo of it's dated lobby and lounge areas.

In the hope of staving off a 1,000 room convention hotel that's been on the drawing boards for years?

That's the way it appears to some.

[DaveKCMO]

confirmed by the bartender at the muehlbach tower last weekend.

[kboish]

Seems like all the DT hotels are getting ready for fresh competition from a new convention hotel

[KCPowercat]

Did this require sources? Breaking news confidential....next up.....sources indicate plaza will hang Christmas lights and turn them on Thanksgiving night.

[Roanoker]

Did this require sources? Breaking news confidential....next up.....sources indicate plaza will hang Christmas lights and turn them on Thanksgiving night.

  Ha! My audible laugh of the day. Thanks.

[KCMax]

Downtown Marriott gives lobby a $20M makeover

The $20 million makeover will bring the hotel’s traditional lobby in line with Marriott’s “International Great Room” concept.
The new lobby is designed to be a “plugged-in, multipurpose space,” including free wireless Internet service, a coffee/cocktail bar that transitions from day to night and a menu that provides dishes in five-, 10-, or 20-minute intervals to accommodate schedules.

[FangKC]

Lobby makeover in Downtown Marriott complete

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/11/36 ... -done.html

[woodrow]

Wow!! I just looked at the pictures in the article and that makeover is bland bland bland. Ugh. I hope it looks better in person. Nothing interesting or unusual. I hope the redo of the Hyatt/Sheraton lobby is a bit nicer.

[KCPowercat]

Wow!! I just looked at the pictures in the article and that makeover is bland bland bland. Ugh. I hope it looks better in person. Nothing interesting or unusual. I hope the redo of the Hyatt/Sheraton lobby is a bit nicer.

It's a hotel lobby of a conservative chain owned by a conservative ownership group....I wouldn't be expecting shadow dancers.

[DaveKCMO]

now that the common spaces are complete, the room renovations are about to get underway (or so i'm told).

[FangKC]

The Downtown Marriott is seeking to create a CID tax to fund renovations to rooms.

I wish as part of approving this effort that the City would also require the building ownership group to put forth a plan to completely renovate the unused upper floors of the Muehlebach Hotel building. I don't care if it's additional hotel rooms (combining smaller rooms into larger suites), or converting the former hotel rooms into small apartments.

I would also like to see them doing something with the former bar space on Baltimore.

The renovation plan could be a separate effort from the Marriott tower renovation. Since the Muehlebach Hotel is historic, it's eligible for tax credits.

Having a building of that size sitting mostly empty and unused is not good for downtown in the long-term.

Public financing of renovations at big hotel is part of one-two KC convention punch

http://tinyurl.com/glbgfp3

[DaveKCMO]

Rumor that the Downtown Marriott has sold to non-local owners.

[normalthings]

Any plans to further renovate would be great

[DaveKCMO]

New ownership (“a bunch of people”) and management. All Raphael folks are out. Pistilli is retiring.

[TheLastGentleman]

I hope something good gets done with the historic Muehlebach building. If the plan to convert it to apartments died, maybe it's time to just reopen it as a hotel instead of leaving it vacant.

[Link2]

Aimbridge will be the operator I believe. New ownership group is out of NYC.