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Old Posted May 30, 2012, 8:55 PM
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The 580 foot height the article is mentioning is the height without the spire. And actually, the architect told me it's 581 feet to the roof. The spire height is 700 feet. This says the hotel will break ground next spring.

http://www.statesman.com/business/re...inglePage=true
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Luxury brand Fairmont to operate 2nd downtown convention hotel

By Shonda Novak

Updated: 9:33 a.m. Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Published: 7:31 a.m. Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Luxury management company Fairmont Hotels & Resorts will be the operator for a $350 million convention hotel planned for downtown, making Austin only the second Texas city to feature the famed brand, the company told the American-Statesman on Tuesday.

Fairmont said it will manage the 50-story, 1,000-room hotel for which Manchester Texas Financial Group plans to break ground early next spring, with a projected opening in 2015. Manchester will build its hotel — to be named the Fairmont Austin — on land that is now a parking lot at East Cesar Chavez and Red River streets just east of the Austin Convention Center.

At 580 feet, the hotel would be the second-tallest building in Austin's skyline, after the 56-story Austonian.


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