Downtown Marriott Residence Inn

[Florida]

Let us use these pictures as representitive of how the different Brands of Hotels would look...

Hyatt Regency

Tampa

Embassy Suites

Tampa

Marriott

Tampa

[Florida]

I'd like the Embassy Suites if I could choose from the looks of whats in Tampa.

[cityboy05]

Yea that embassy would fit in with our developing skyline.

[csmurphy8885]

I third the motion.

[Florida]

hey... CMurphy... could you do one of your plugins with that Embassy Suites?

[csmurphy8885]

requested.... On the lot we talked about next to CC. Took out the marriot conv center. rendered at about 20 stories.

[Florida]

awesome work... im tempted to say 20 is too tall

[csmurphy8885]

i agree. It is on the side of the hill (the lot) so it would be an awsome property for anyone.

[Florida]

I'm excited about our potential. Downtown is really starting to shape up.

[Florida]

CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN!!!!!!!

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Why hasn't the Tallahassee Democrat done an article on this groundbreaking? Or have they?

[stjoe]

I hate that they knocked down those great oaks. That lot was so nice...it looked like a park. I wouldn't mind if it were not a mid grade stucco hotel. I was hoping Gaines Street was going to be more high rent than that...but considering where it is coming from, I probably have too high expectations.

[Florida]

What do you mean, considering where it is coming from St Joe?

[csmurphy8885]

If we were to make every tree into a park... well, we wont go there. I think there are better places to presserve nature, than the stragglin' corner of Gaines and RR, imo. I hate to say that, but i think you will agree, a better park site would be, the chain of parks, sentenial field and franklin basin, and areas that have something other than trees, we have trees everywhere. I am the first to complain when a development knocks out 5 acres of luch forest, but that corner is nothing to cry. the development will be a positive. IMO(as if i had to be redundant and state that it is my own opinion, but i dont what to seem to rude)

[Florida]

Well I agree with you, CMurphy, that this block wouldn't make a good park area. Another good point you made was how Tallahassee could turn current park spaces into vibrant, or useful park space. Enhancing our green space downtown will take us a step closer to vibrance, but is it necessary to add to the inventory at this point... not really!

Considering we've got Cascades Park still contaminated and closed, Doug Burnett Park overgrown and under used, and the chain of parks lining the historic Park Avenue district our downtown would be awesome of all of these green districts were linked.

[csmurphy8885]

Side note... today i notice the lot across gaines from turlington had alot of activity. I saw two drills, 3 trucks, and a group of men in suits and hardhats. I do not consider myself einstien or shirlock, but that seems like a soil test and developers.....

[csmurphy8885]

p.s. what is the park between turlington bldg and civic center? can we expect that to remain, it seems like a parking lot.

[Florida]

p.s.  what is the park between turlington bldg and civic center?  can we expect that to remain, it seems like a parking lot.

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Its called the Doug Burnett Park.

[csmurphy8885]

ahhh

i know that when i was younger, we parked there as part of the Civic centers annex parking, it still cost 5 bucks. It could be nice, but it looks so bad.

[Florida]

Yeah... that over growth is terrible! The park doesn't get much TLC.

[csmurphy8885]

It looks like all the preconstruction work is done. I think weather permiting, there could be some serious work happening here this week. Concreate and a crane before friday hopefully. I Dont thnk that is too long a shot.

[cityboy05]

^It's to bad that plaza tower isn't this far. It would be nice to see 2 extra cranes up this week. We can only wait and hope that the date they gave us is legit.

[Florida]

This project shouldn't have a large crane like the others. But it would be nice to see a few more cranes up.

[csmurphy8885]

Downtown city commissioner news from Tallahassee.com from today, thursday. Good news about a possibnle grocery store in gaines-

[Florida]

^What you actually saw yesterday was the finalization of the sale of the property that the Marriott Residence Inn will sit on. Up to the current date, Finvarb doesn't currently own the property, they were simply doing a soil sample and land clearing.

Official ground breaking will be this Friday... part of that news I had to protect until the time was right.

[csmurphy8885]

The man from marriot at the comissioners meeting (on WCOT) was eager for the city to express its plans for the other lots. It is good to see that developers are more than just interested... but eager.