[MLUG - DISCUSSION] somebody set up us the bomb, part 2

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

So it turns out that the "impaired" status of Hinkson Creek really 
might have some teeth in it after all:

   http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2004/Jan/20040130News006.asp

The select quote from this is:

    In addition to Bass Pro, among the high-dollar, high-profile 
    developments yet to get DNR approval is the renovation and 
    expansion of the Sam's Club building off Conley Road, the 
    Wal-Mart Supercenter planned for Grindstone Parkway and the 
    Lake Broadway commercial development that was approved last fall. 
    Today's groundbreaking for Boone Hospital's $14.1 million south 
    expansion was canceled because of a lack of permits.

So that's a lot of stuff held up.  And the weird thing on this list
is the "renovation and expansion of the Sam's Club building" item.  
I'd never heard that one before.  I'm guessing that this has
something to do with the albatross that is the former MegaMarket
location?  I guess the good news there would be if the Kroenke group 
were forced to build a decent parking lot.

Then in other news:

   http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2004/Jan/20040131Busi002.asp

   "A Jefferson City company plans to build a Hilton Garden Inn Hotel 
    and Conference Center at the Centerstate Crossing development 
    that's picking up steam in north Columbia.

    KCP Hospitality won the Hilton franchise last week and plans a 
    $15 million, four-story, 150-room hotel overlooking a lake 
    planned next to the new Bass Pro Shops, company Vice President 
    Ray Puri said."

So if I've been counting it up right, that means that that
developers are currently planning to build over 500 more
mid-/upper-scale hotel rooms in Columbia counting neither the
project that might happen on University property nor anything on the
Phillips tract.  (The current ones would be this Hilton, a Marriott
at 63/AC, and a Holiday Inn mixed into the Nifong maze).

Yeesh...somebody must know something I don't about hotel room demand 
around here.

jking




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