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This will be across the street from the convention center expansion that starts later this year. No other site would be appropriate.

Also the block has a wierd L-shaped alley, and they City's price for using the alley was too high. Avoiding both the alley and the old buildings would have meant a much smaller hotel. (The original plan was a much larger hotel on the full block, including 150 affordable housing units in the building, which is what the City screwed up.)