Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:15:14 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Not [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Fliers
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

I wish people would change the subject lines of emails....

>>> macbuccfo at msn.com 10/30/2006 9:53:12 AM >>>
Actually, what the City Council is give their assent to a trade of
property
to the current owner of the property not already in city possession at
the
hotel site a slice of the old convention center property. Only after
that
can the bonds be issued and preparations go forward. Unfortunately,
exactly
when the Council will get around to doing anything like that is
questionable.

Bob MacIntosh

>From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
>Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Gilliland Fliers
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:59:33 -0400
>
>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.  (I'm not betraying any
> > > confidences here; those meetings, unlike most of what we
proofread,
> > > are open to the public.)
> >
> >  Okay, that's interesting to know.  Did the meeting transcripts
> >  mention if the DC city council has decided how the new hotel will
be
> >  funded?  A group of investors have volunteered to pay for the
hotel
> >  construction, but I haven't heard about any decisions.
> >
> >  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.
>
>I don't think the City Council has any direct involvement.  I think
>that's WCCA's.  They have advertising for investment bankers and made
>their selection and are now preparing to sell bonds.  I just did a
>(public) meeting of the Finance Committee at which this was
discussed,
>but I tend not to retain the details of the transcripts I edit and
proof
>(too many), although in the case of WCCA I also have to create
minutes
>from the transcript....
>
>--Ted White
>