Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Hannan What do you Call the New Convention Center Hotel?
Posted by Caleb Hannan on Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:47 AM
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A Marriott Marquis.
Yesterday, MDHA picked Marriott to build the 40-story, 1,000 room hotel that will sit next to the proposed $1 billion convention center. Nashville will be one of only four cities in the world -- including New York (seen at right), Atlanta and Washington, D.C. -- to have a Marquis, Marriott's premium brand.
Now that that's out of the way, all we have to do is find out how much (if any) money the developers are willing to throw in the pot. Then we have to find out how we're going to pay for it. And before all that happens, we're going to have to buy the land it'll sit on and establish the Convention Center Authority that will oversee its construction.
So what did yesterday's news accomplish? It gave convention center proponents some good PR during a week when they desperately needed it. It managed to keep up the sense of momentum and inevitability for the whole project. And it introduced the newest, shiniest toy that's going to all but assure us a seat at the Big Boy's table. Not bad for a day's work.
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Is that really a real building? It looks like when you're a kid and you squeeze your cheeks between your hands, or at least the hotel equivalent of that.
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Posted by
Aunt B.
on 08/12/2009 at 1:26 PM
Considering that they're going to put the city into a degree of debt that will make a functioning gov't impossible, couldn't they have gone for something classier? I've been to conventions at two of the three existing MMs (stayed in one of them), and found them boooooring.
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nm
on 08/12/2009 at 2:25 PM
