[toxteth o'grady]

"...Nine hundred thousand room nights have been booked, with reservations made up through 2012..."

That's a helluva start, if they aren't sucking it out of the existing hoteliers. I'd always wondered how they were going to fill up all those rooms; and that looks to be the answer.

The whole property's going to stick out like a sore thumb for a while, until there is more development on that side of the Potomac. It's a shame some of the greenery along the river will be lost...