 
Llyn
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Username: Llyn
Post Number: 1840
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 6:44 pm: |    |
With all the new hotel rooms under construction, I knew it was time for this list. Any additions, deletions, observations?
One of the objections to an expanded Cobo was that downtown needed more rooms. How about now?
Enjoy...
CBD - hotels proposed:
none
CBD - hotels in progress (in no particular order):
1. Double Tree Pick Fort Shelby – 204 rooms (construction starting)
2. Westin Book Cadillac – 455 rooms (under construction)
3. MGM Casino – 400 rooms prox. (under construction)
4. Greektown Casino – 400 rooms prox. (under construction)
Total rooms: 1459
CBD - hotels existing (in no particular order):
1. Rencen Marriott – 1,298 rooms
2. Courtyard by Marriot Millender Center – 260 rooms
3. Pontchartrain Hotel – 384 units
4. Atheneum Suite Hotel – 174 units
5. Hilton Garden Inn – 198 rooms
6. Ramada – 192 rooms (?)
7. Holiday Inn Express – 241 rooms
8. Milner Hotel – 132 rooms
9. The Park Avenue – 120 rooms
10. Shorecrest Motor Inn – 30 rooms
Total rooms: 3,029
Nearby - hotels existing (in no particular order):
1, Omni Detroit River Place – 108 rooms
2. Motor City Casino – 400 rooms prox.
3. Days Inn – 60 rooms
4, Comfort Inn – 78 rooms
5. The Corktown Inn – 150 rooms
6. Hotel St Regis – 120 rooms (subtract for new condos?)
7. Inn on Ferry Street – 40 rooms
Total rooms 956
(Message edited by llyn on May 10, 2007) |
Spiritofdetroit
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Username: Spiritofdetroit
Post Number: 472
Registered: 11-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 8:08 pm: | |
Ramada is no longer Ramada. Now its just the Leland. And NOT a place you would want tourists or conventioneers to stay |
Cmubryan
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Username: Cmubryan
Post Number: 436
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 8:45 pm: | |
I thought Park Avenue was apts. Pontchartrain is about to be "Sheraton Riverside." |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 1199
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 8:46 pm: | |
He meant the Hotel Park Ave., not the Park apts. Cumbryan. |
Cmubryan
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Username: Cmubryan
Post Number: 437
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 9:04 pm: | |
Is that an actual hotel? I was always under the impression it was more of a residence for long-term tenants. |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 1200
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 9:07 pm: | |
No, it's an actual hotel. It has a beautiful lobby and I believe a website. I don't think it's spoke upon much though because of it's area.
Here's the review page for it on AOL Citysearch
http://detroit.citysearch.com/profile/5219066/?brand=smx_hotel-nc
It's an hotel, but you're right, it appears to be an housing building for young kids.
(Message edited by Urbanize on May 10, 2007) |
Detroitplanner
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Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 1240
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007 - 9:14 pm: | |
what? no viking or shorecrest??? |
Urbanize
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Username: Urbanize
Post Number: 1202
Registered: 02-2007
| | Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 2:30 am: | |
he did say Shorecrest Dp, but nice catch on the Viking (although that would be like saying the Tip Motel). |
Docmo
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Username: Docmo
Post Number: 265
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 6:54 am: | |
I would consider the Shorecrest out of the CBD. It is east of 375. If you want to include it, you should also include the Motor City Casino hotel. |
Gannon
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Username: Gannon
Post Number: 9176
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 11:00 am: | |
IF these will be referenced by visitors, then by all means if it doesn't double the cab fare it should be included.
Three bucks'll get you to and from Corktown, Eastern Market, Midtown, Brush Park, Jefferson east to Belle Isle and west to Rancho Delrayo...yeah, I'd put 'em on a list with disclaimer about the lack of easy walk-ability.
There are NOT too many, and we could perk the B&Bs in Brush Park and Corktown in the process. Are there any Bed and Breakfasts operating in Indian Village yet?! Should be.
Anyone ever do a survey of B&Bs in this town?! Some folk will only travel that way. H-m-m-n-n, another storyline idea...if it hasn't already been done.
We still have a Euro-style hostel operating, too? It's been a while since anyone mentioned that one that Sean Harrington ran above the Town Pump...I can only guess that it's gone now. Forgive me if I'm a decade or MORE out of date, at one time we met the best Euro travellers hanging at the Town Pump...in the early days before it got trendy-busy.
Cheers! |
Detroitplanner
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Username: Detroitplanner
Post Number: 1241
Registered: 04-2006
| | Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 11:36 am: | |
I was looking for SHorecrest as outside the CBD too... I suppose we all have different ways of dividing up the City. |
Llyn
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Username: Llyn
Post Number: 1841
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 2:45 pm: | |
Thanks for the input. Yes, including the Shorecrest in the CBD but not Motor City Casino is kind of arbitrary. My thinking was that Shorecrest is so very close to the Rencen and the people mover - even though just past the I-375 split - that it should be included based on ease of walkability. Didn't feel that way about Motor City, although it's not so far that you couldn't or wouldn't walk it. Just feels... farther.
Anyone know how many rooms the Viking Motel has? Missed that one.
Also forgot about the new B abd B in Brush Park. Anyone remember the name or how many rooms it has? That's the one on Winder, right?
Anyone have any idea what kind of impact that new rooms might have on the convention trade, if any?
quote:It's been a while since anyone mentioned that one that Sean Harrington ran above the Town Pump.
That's the one mentioned on the list as the The Park Avenue. It's still there. |
Llyn
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Username: Llyn
Post Number: 1842
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Friday, May 11, 2007 - 2:47 pm: | |
PS Anyone know if there's still a possibility of a hotel at Ford Field? |
Llyn
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Username: Llyn
Post Number: 1845
Registered: 06-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 14, 2007 - 8:32 pm: | |
One self-serving bump... |