Here we go again. People in positions of power and influence should be beacons of truth shepharding us to good thinking as we consider the proposal for a hotel at Elm and Lee Streets downtown. Instead we have the tiresome usual hyperbole and misinformation:
- The (Greensboro, NC) News & Record's Doug Clark insisting that their are "established hotels not far away already catering to well-heeled clientele." He offers as examples, O'Henry Hotel, 3.5 miles away, Proximity Hotel, 4 miles away, and Grandover, a mere 19 miles away. Not far away, indeed.
- Then we have John Shoffner, the city’s economic development program manager, disputing the hotel proponents' expected room rates, saying, "it appears that the average daily rate at which a prudent hotel operator could successfully market upscale hotel rooms ranges between $116 and $152 a night."
Orbitz says otherwise. Rates at Greensboro's upscale hotels are consistently well above $200 per night, just as the proponents said and contrary to the City official.
There are plenty of serious questions in need of complete and accurate information in considering the costs and benefits of this project. It would be a nice change if Greensboro's decision-makers and opinion-shapers could approach this with honesty and a desire to discern the objective realities. I'm not hopeful.
No way that it's 19 miles to Grandover. It's only 9 from Vickrey Chapel Rd. area to the Historical Museum.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment. According to Google Maps, 9 miles from the Vickery Road area will take you to the Gillespie Golf Course area -- short of the Historical Museum.
ReplyDeleteRegardless of the precision of our measurements, perhaps you will still agree with me, nonetheless, that it is hypderbolic to say that, whether nine miles or nineteen miles, Grandover is an example of a hotel "not far away."
Depends on which way you go I guess. Down 85 and up Freeman Mill mapquest puts it at 10.2 miles.
ReplyDeleteYes, I do agree Grandover is "not far away".
I just know you're a stickler for facts and misinformation or I wouldn't have brought up the 19 miles.