Fountainhead

Sorry - missed your question in the flurry of posts. The Hotel you speak of from the previous public release was 160 rooms - the current Hotel proposed is 500 rooms. (So you are correct - 500 Rooms total in the initial phase). With respect to your comment about "the worse use of Lakefront" have you studied Boston or San Diego as a point of comparison. IMHO both examples show how public dollars created new private investments is areas deem "away" from the City Centre and created the access to the waterfront you appear to desire. The Flats site is too important to lie dormant now. It is the type of leveraged investments we should be seeking from all proposals for the use of public dollars.

Any large public investment should seek to maximize private investment. FEB is shovel ready and breaks into areas of the City that planners have dreamed about utilizing for decades, imo

Where is the land is this picture? Where are the two best natural features of our town? Public dollars should be used to leverage private investment. "Make no little plans...."

If you page through the FEB proposal you will see a new 500 room hotel is proposed for the site. When the project takes off - more rooms will be needed. The concern about the Mall or FEC site is the lack of available adjacent land for development for Hotels (or any other private investment for that matter) Also - The 1800 at TC is connected via the under-utilized waterfront line.

OOPs - thanks for the catch :)

www.Thelakefrontsite.com is the pitch from the Flats East Bank