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Originally Posted by Kumdogmillionaire
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Your head.
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Exactly what point do you think went over my head? The fact of the matter remains, a hotel is still planned for this building, it's just not happening this year or possibly even next year. The fact that you couldn't produce proof when I called you out on it earlier indicates you don't have any information, so sit down.
People conveniently forget that this entire fucking building is already built, including
dedicated spaces specific to a hotel, such as a lobby, reception areas, BOH, offices, retail space, restaurants/bars, kitchen(s), storage, dedicated mechanical and electrical rooms, loading docks, etc., not to mention hotel rooms. I do not know to what extent the
interior of the hotel portion of the building has been built out (perhaps nothing yet), but what I do know is the lower levels of this building, the structure, all shared building utilities, etc are already designed and built to accommodate a hotel. It would be more cost prohibitive to change those hotel room floors back to condo residential or even rental because hotel rooms are tiny (250-450 sq ft, typical range) relative to new construction rental or condo sizes so to convert any of those spaces back to residential would require potentially significant changes to existing interior partitions, especially if some rated separations are also load-bearing. It's not impossible, but expensive.
Somehow, people's dislike of this building clouds their logic and reasoning skills.