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Agree Grid, was really hoping Loews would add 400 more rooms to this project when they took it over. A 1,200 roomer would have been fantastic!GRID wrote: ↑Mon Nov 05, 2018 12:43 pm Still wish this were one 40 story tower rather than two 20 story towers in an L shape. It will still be nice though.
I just hope it does what it's supposed to do. It seems like other similar sized cities are still building more hotel rooms than KC near their convention centers. Indy just announced two more hotel towers of 1400 rooms for example.
https://cbs4indy.com/2018/10/19/120m-do ... dy-hotels/
KC is adding a ton of hotel rooms downtown, but I'm not sure it's really closing the gap much on competitors. If Cerner had a major presence downtown, there would be three times the hotels going up in downtown right now.
A redesign like that may have been projected to take too much time to allow the building to be built in time for planned events.
Especially without more $$$$$flyingember wrote: ↑Tue Nov 06, 2018 11:57 am It took around 10 years of talking with operators, banks, etc to come up with the financial arrangement for an 800 room hotel. They barely changed the design when the brand changed.
It was never going to be anything except what it is today after about 2016.
Is interesting to compare this to Indy, as GRID referenced. They opened their new JW Marriot downtown (~1000 rooms?) a few years ago, prior to the Super Bowl, and are already finalizing plans for another 1400 rooms in high-rise format across the street from their convention center.It took around 10 years of talking with operators, banks, etc to come up with the financial arrangement for an 800 room hotel. They barely changed the design when the brand changed.
It was never going to be anything except what it is today after about 2016.