I just read the following & I'm shocked.
maybe someone who posts to this thread is employed in the hotel business, or has indirect connections to it, or knows someone who works in that industry, & can verify whether this info is correct or not. iow, I can't believe it's this bad......
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Construction of a $1-billion NFL stadium and a new wing of the Convention Center in downtown Los Angeles would dramatically increase the number of convention bookings while generating $22 million annually for the city, according to the findings of two reports commissioned by the project's developer.
Bruce Baltin, one of the two AEG-hired consultants, concluded that hotel bookings from increased conventions would more than double by 2016 to 551,000 room nights. By comparison, San Diego had 600,000 convention room nights in 2010, and San Francisco had 810,000 last year, he said.
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^ so LA, even if it doubles----DOUBLES!----the amt of hotel business it gets----& which won't even begin to happen for another 5 yrs----still will be well below SD & SF?! You mean it currently gets only around 270,000 bookings per yr?! You mean a city like SF gets almost over 3 times that per yr?!
Forget about whether the hood will be helped or not by a new stadium combined with an expanded convention hall, or whether the study is totally honest or not. If the figures really are as they claim to be, that alone indicates something is really, really weak in dtla. That suggests ppl like the screenwriter who slammed the hood are the ones who've been able to get a lot of negative word of mouth out there to the public. It means that LA, even with a larger, better convention ctr, still will be lagging other cities.
ppl responsible for LA, esp dt, have to start yelling "unacceptable!!!"
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