[The ATX]

Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

I'm going to steal electricon's trademark emoticon for a minute.

The capitol view argument is a load of BS. The building will actually be setback farther away from Congress than all the other highrises on that side of Congress.

As for the parking issue, it's a parking lot that has a capacity for maybe 2 dozen cars. The new hotel will have 410 rooms. That's at least 410 new customers to those businesses, and that's not even counting the hotel employees and the construction workers who will build it or the patrons to the restaurant and any other retail the hotel might have. Let's assume for a moment that each of those 24 cars only sit in that lot for an hour each day. That gives the parking lot a maximum potential of 576 patrons in the area each day - 24 times 24 is 576. Assuming they stayed 2 hours, that chops that number in half to just 288 a day. That's already half the number of area patrons that will likely be generated daily by the hotel. The parking lot patron number becomes dismally smaller each time you assume each car stayed another hour in the lot.

Good points, Rusty.