Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 10:53:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Fliers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Michael Nelson wrote:

> --- "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>
>> As for the Convention Center hotel's completion date slipping, as it
>> happens, Ted and I are the people who proofread the transcripts of
>> the meetings of the Washington Convention Center's Board of Directors
>> and Advisory Board.  As of last month, they were still saying their
>> headquarters hotel should be open by 2010.  Of course that's no
>> guarantee that it will be, but Alexis claims to have knowledge that
>> it
>> definitely won't be.  If so, he knows more about it than the people
>> in charge of it.

That probably wouldn't be hard, to judge by the news reports.

> We were concerned that if funding for the hotel wasn't
> secured soon, everything would start over again when
> Mayor Williams leaves office.
>
> It was my understanding that the negotiation for the
> final piece of land needed for the hotel has not
> reached a settlement.  It seems to me that the DC
> City Council has been too busy lately worrying
> about the new baseball stadium parking to have time
> to work on the convention center hotel.

Or much else, except the upcoming elections.  Oh, well, why should they be
different from other politicians?

-- Dick Eney