Proposed City Projects Yay or Nay?
Establishment: PGE Park, New Hotel, Etc
Location: Portland
Okay, none of the projects above are restaurants, but they will all have food outlets of varying scale upon completion.
For the record, I’m against the new minor league stadium (we’re still paying for the PGE Park renovations) and think both the MLS team AND the Beavers can just play where they already do. Though repairs to the MC are a good idea.
I’m actually FOR a convention center hotel, since it’s construction jobs now, lots of hospitality jobs later and Metro’s an excellent employer (for its permanent employees). Plus if its all city owned, all the revenue comes back to us. Instead of The Nines, where basically we pay for it and Sage keeps all the revenue. And we’d attract convention business we currently can’t compete for.
It just needs to be a truly world class hotel (and no, having pretentious art in your lobby doesn’t make you world class)–but more of a mid-range product (like a Hyatt). Currently most of our hotels are either old, shabby passe chains or overpriced faux boutique dumps.
Opinions? Oh and remember conventioneers will go to other restaurants and bars around town, so yes, even if you’re a small hole in the wall, you will benefit.
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