OFFICIAL - Loews Convention Hotel (formerly Hyatt)
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Those new translucent purple buildings look awesome!
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But can we talk more about the "Ladie's Entrance" behind the Hotel Cosby? What's the scoop on that? Was it commonplace in those days that the women folk wouldn't go into the main entrance with the men folk?FangKC wrote:I wonder if people complained when the sight-lines were obstructed for the New York Life Building?
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All ladies or 'ladies of the night'. I suspect the latter.
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They should, I had you in mind when I picked the colorbeautyfromashes wrote:Those new translucent purple buildings look awesome!
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probably all ladies. here is a 1914 newspaper from chicago hinting at some of the issues relating to these entrances — pretty hard to read even zoomed in, but appears to be a marketing ploy that at least in some instances may have been used in a misleading (sinister?) way
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1914 ... tion-urged
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1914 ... tion-urged
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In the city council's business session today, Mike Burke noted about the new rendering that it is "bound to change" and is as roughly accurate as they have now. They will come back to the city when they have their nearly final design.
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When thinking about the convention hotel design,Remeber it could have been worse. We could have had this instead.KCMax wrote:
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This design is FAR better than the Hyatt Medical Center.ldai_phs wrote:When thinking about the convention hotel design,Remeber it could have been worse. We could have had this instead.KCMax wrote:
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But people still complained about the other plans design too. What I was getting at is people will never be happy about the design, but a focus on good ground floor/Walk ability is something everyone can agree on.mister816 wrote:This design is FAR better than the Hyatt Medical Center.ldai_phs wrote:When thinking about the convention hotel design,Remeber it could have been worse. We could have had this instead.KCMax wrote:
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Personally, I think a taller, skinnier building would be less obstructive than a shorter, wider one. I liked the original design much better. I hate the idea that, after 25 years of trying to land a state of the art convention center hotel, this this the best "cost cutting " design that they could come up with!! Oh well, it is what it is, I guess. We need more conventions, so if this helps land bigger and better ones with more revenue, then I guess I'll take it. Disappointing, though!!
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I think the new design meets the needs of conventions. The problem I would see is that it might not meet the needs of a good part of the basic tourist market. I would think it wouldn't be the first choice for a couple wanting to come DT for a nice dinner or P&L district and spend the night in a sexy hotel. If 'business traveler' is the only market you're trying to tap, it will get the job done.
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Biz Journal pic on KC tourism, hotels, AirBNB stats..
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n ... -city.html
PDF of pic easy to zoom...
https://media.bizj.us/view/img/10293752/roomstogrow.pdf
http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n ... -city.html
PDF of pic easy to zoom...
https://media.bizj.us/view/img/10293752/roomstogrow.pdf
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Would've been nice to see a graphic with the number of rooms listed next to each new hotel, as well as current number of rooms downtown versus proposed.
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I'm hoping they just wanted a new rendering for the city council and so they just pulled some generic looking building with the right dimensions. It sounds like it's going to change so I'm being optimistic.
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I'd guess that maybe they are also figuring in cost. Given the nature of this project, I seriously doubt we will be getting a landmark building unless Hyatt is willing to shell out a lot of extra money for it.TheBigChuckbowski wrote:I'm hoping they just wanted a new rendering for the city council and so they just pulled some generic looking building with the right dimensions. It sounds like it's going to change so I'm being optimistic.
Landmark buildings and public projects don't really come hand-in-hand in the United States these days.
Recent Hyatt projects in the United States, excluding NYC & Chicago:
Hyatt Place, Denver, CO; 248 rooms
Hyatt Regency, Bellevue, WA; 732 rooms
Grand Hyatt, San Antonio, TX; 1,003 rooms
Grand Hyatt, Seattle, WA; 457 rooms
I'd be looking for something more similar to those designs, rather than a taller, more landmark, unique design.
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Those are all hideous
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First it was suppose to be a 1,000 room hotel. Now it is 800 rooms. Something tells me a lot of this has to do with the economics of the proposal. Think you will have something rather generic to keep costs down. And maybe a further reduction in rooms considering the number of rooms recently opened and those on-line to open.
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Yeah...KCPowercat wrote:Those are all hideous
A few more recent hotels built in the US... non-Hyatt..
Convention Hotel; Tacoma, WA, 300 rooms, currently a concept
Hotel ZaZa; Austin, TX, under construction
Hilton Events Center Hotel; Des Moines, IA, under construction
Omni Hotel; Nashville, TN
Embassy Suites; Denver, CO
Hotel Indigo; Asheville, NC
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So...convention hotels built in the 2010s are just ugly in general.
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In other words, you don't like post modernism designsJBmidtown wrote:So...convention hotels built in the 2010s are just ugly in general.