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Ok, so here are the details. This project went before the planning commission on May 14th under the name "Hampton Inn". Notice the dropping of the "and suites." This was a final review with the annotation "revisions to front elevation of Hampton Inn." This could mean one of 2 things. Either the project has new owners and they have made some revisions or the previous owner had trouble selling and decided to keep the land and revise the project. Either way, I think we need to hold off on calling this "cancelled" until there is official word that it actually is. Especially considering it was working through the planning commission more than a month after it supposedly met its end.

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Ok, so here are the details. This project went before the planning commission on May 14th under the name "Hampton Inn". Notice the dropping of the "and suites." This was a final review with the annotation "revisions to front elevation of Hampton Inn." This could mean one of 2 things. Either the project has new owners and they have made some revisions or the previous owner had trouble selling and decided to keep the land and revise the project. Either way, I think we need to hold off on calling this "cancelled" until there is official word that it actually is. Especially considering it was working through the planning commission more than a month after it supposedly met its end.
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Ok, so here are the details. This project went before the planning commission on May 14th under the name "Hampton Inn". Notice the dropping of the "and suites." This was a final review with the annotation "revisions to front elevation of Hampton Inn." This could mean one of 2 things. Either the project has new owners and they have made some revisions or the previous owner had trouble selling and decided to keep the land and revise the project. Either way, I think we need to hold off on calling this "cancelled" until there is official word that it actually is. Especially considering it was working through the planning commission more than a month after it supposedly met its end.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is a Gene Kaufman MONSTROCITY!!!!!! right by Penn station in Midtown Manhattan. It it one of the most ghastly buildings in the city by one of the worse architects the world has ever seen. Under NO circumstances should Norfolk be poisoned with such an eye soar. His buildings, and this hotel specifically is like fungus you can't get rid of. Its an eye sore, a bacteria, a vomit inducing dumpster of architectural garbage. Norfolk would be better off with no building than anything that resembles that or any gene kaufman designed building.

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is a Gene Kaufman MONSTROSITY!!!!!! right by Penn station in Midtown Manhattan. It it one of the most ghastly buildings in the city by one of the worse architects the world has ever seen. Under NO circumstances should Norfolk be poisoned with such an eye soar. His buildings, and this hotel specifically is like fungus you can't get rid of. Its an eye sore, a bacteria, a vomit inducing dumpster of architectural garbage. Norfolk would be better off with no building than anything that resembles that or any gene kaufman designed building.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the "bid date" when the developer gives the construction company the contract to build the building?? Put two and two together and that should happen by the end of this month.
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Please forgive my suspicious nature, but tell me if this is a plausible scenario?

On April 2, the feds announce they are once again interested in buying the Granby Tower site to expand the courthouse. If the courthouse is constructed, the Hampton Inn site would be too close to the new courthouse to maintain the security standoff distances that GSA established after the Oklahoma City bombing. GSA would have to buy the Hampton Inn site if they buy the Granby Tower site.

On April 8, Raj puts the Hampton Inn site up for sale. But then he realizes that if he has a final set of plans and city approval, along with a franchise from Hampton, he has a "project". And a project is worth more than a vacant lot. (Remember the GAS backed off from the Granby Tower site a few years ago when all Gadams had was a set of plans and some pre-sales - in other words, a project.) So, if he spends $100K or so to finish the plans and get city approval, the "project" may be worth a couple of million dollars more than the vacant lot.

JB Denny may be just an innocent dupe, thinking they are pricing a real project when it is just a charade. Or Raj may be paying them to go along with it, with a promise that if the feds don't buy the lot, he will get to build the hotel. In today's economy, JB Denny might not have any other projects going, so this could be a way to make a few bucks, with a chance that it will develop into a full-blown construction project.

Just something to think about.

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