Austin | Austin Marriott Downtown | 386 FEET | 31 FLOORS | Complete

[We vs us]

Also in re: the ACC expansion -- movement has been very very slow, and the current thinking of my leadership is that they'll take up discussion again in the New Year. Whether that means anything really moves forward remains to be seen. The hospitality community is unanimously behind it, but everyone's been surprised by the animosity towards the ACC and Visit Austin that certain council members have shown in the last few months.

So we're in limbo, honestly -- and time is ticking by. Assuming that the project would take, say, four years from council approval to completion, we won't have additional space till at least 2022. That's tragic. Especially when you consider how many rooms in that area will be added between now and then (1600 between Fairmont and Marriott alone) without more convention space to support them.