  Cmubryan Member Username: Cmubryan Post Number: 312 Registered: 11-2003 |
Just did another walk-through. Tried to find my old post to post this on but it's gone. The hotel looked completely closed Front doors facing Jefferson are locked. About 100 brand new mattresses sitting in their plastic covers in the lobby and restaurant. The lobby is also boxed off and you can't go into a lot of the center of it. Motor lobby is completely gone and its supposedly going to be the fitness center. Only walked up to floor 10 but all the hallways are completely gutted as before but a couple of the rooms have some carpet laid already. New recessed lighting for the hallways being installed. Terrace level still awaiting its gutting I'm assuming along with the old fitness center. Ballrooms and meeting rooms are halfway gutted. Once again signs proclaim it will be finished in Winter of 2006 which is 2 months away, considering the progress they have made since I started doing my walk-throughs there is no way this will be finished or close to it by then. I mean I walk through after typical business hours and there are hardly any workers. Seems like they aren't doing too aggressive as a schedule. | ||
Motif Member Username: Motif Post Number: 28 Registered: 06-2005 |
I talked to a guy that’s working inside the building and he said that place is going to be like a four or five star hotel there going to build a bridge/tunnel over the road directly into Cobo all rooms are going to have plasmas. If you ask me I think all this book caddy and five star Pontchartrain constriction is do to the casinos building all that gaming facilities Detroit is the next Vegas or the Vegas of the mid-west at lest. | ||
Eric Member Username: Eric Post Number: 566 Registered: 11-2004 |
An article in Freep on the 19th mentioned that the Pontch had closed. Things should speed up now that they no longer have to work around guest. The Pontchartrain is closed for renovations through December. (A representative there acknowledged the bad timing.) http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs .dll/article?AID=2006610190366 The BC and Pontch have nothing to do with the casinos, people realized that there was a lack of high end hotels rooms downtown. (Message edited by eric on October 24, 2006) | ||
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city Post Number: 126 Registered: 04-2006 |
By winter 2006 could also mean the last day of it in March. Which is more accurately "Detroit lingo" than the first day of winter. ;) | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2974 Registered: 08-2004 |
Time out.... What's that, there's going to be a catwalk connecting Cobo with the Ponchartrain! That's the first I've heard of that.... When they expanded Cobo, they designed the expansion with just such a catwalk in mind for the future. If that's true, then that is a definite plus for the hotel, in regards to convention business. | ||
Motif Member Username: Motif Post Number: 29 Registered: 06-2005 |
I talked to this guy that’s looking at the blue prints on a daily basis and one of the things that he kept stressing throughout the conversation was the catwalk. And yea he also said that one of the biggest objectives for the hotel is to have it done by auto show. | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 2975 Registered: 08-2004 |
Thanks for the heads up Motif!! This will definitely be a great sell for convention business at the renovated hotel. (Trying to picture in my mind just how long that catwalk will be... and where it connects into the upper level at Cobo...) | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 677 Registered: 12-2005 |
With remodel/renovation work like this (and especially with new construction) the speed with a project moves along is directly proportional to the flow of available cash. If your cashflow situation is good, you will have tradesmen tripping over each other, and the work will move along at a quick pace. If you see a project that starts, then stalls, then a little more is done, then stalls, then finally is completed one day you are usually looking at a situation where the cash flow is interrupted. Not always, sometimes you just have to wait until a certain contractor can get away from a previous job and get going on yours. But it’s usually about money. Start a job with all the cash you need, and a prompt way of paying your bills and the site will be all assholess and elbows and you will be finished in a decent time frame. money=activity | ||
Stecks77 Member Username: Stecks77 Post Number: 141 Registered: 08-2006 |
Catwalk? Is this truly necessary? Maybe in winter or rain but its not even that far. If this is the case, maybe we should connect every building downtown via catwalk? | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10790 Registered: 10-2003 |
They did, it rides on elevated rails. http://thepeoplemover.com/WE-L L-TAKE-YOU-THERE!.id.2.htm |
