Anthony West wrote:
If such a hotel failed and was converted to offices or a short-stay
facility (or condos?), its users would soon discover there is *no*
reliable possibility of finding on-street parking for several blocks
around, without a permit-parking sticker (or even with one). It would be
like people working in or visiting an 11-story building at 20th &
Chestnut; very few of them try to get by solely by feeding the meter all
day long. Any future users of this 40th & Pine building would face
similar pressures. Most of those who drove would pay to put their
vehicle on a lot, I 'spect.
I suppose, in such an eventuality, the owners could buy up a few
neighboring lots and try to replace them with a parking garage. My magic
eightball says this move would probably get shot down.
Lewis Mellman wrote:
Hilton HAD a hotel on campus with a ped bridge to CHOP and a
parking lot that is now offices. Is there any chance that the demand
for extended stay rooms has been miscalculated and some of the rooms
will "need" to be converted to short-stay rooms and/or offices to
avert a financial hardship? If such a change is a possibility, will
these added guests, office workers and clients also be provided with
free valet parking to a nearby Penn lot, or will they be circling the
neighborhood looking for a parking spot, dialing their cell phone to
say they're late for their appointment and parking in some resident's
driveway? Or will they be directed to make a left onto Baltimore into
the Vet School grid-lock. Can we get a commitment that this hotel
will always have a required minimum stay and that is the only use it
will ever have during the zoning process? My magic eightball is a
little fuzzy, but I think it says, "Unlikely."
does anyone's magic eightball see how a hotel with a kitchen
in every suite, developed in tandem with penn's hub, domus,
stratum, hub II and radian (all touted in the dp as
alternative student housing) -- how such a hotel with a
kitchen in every suite could potentially be converted to
student apts/dorms if the hotel failed?
has lussenhop provided anyone with facts/figures of the
actual demand for his hotel? what were his figures based on?
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