Here is the main document, minus most images (if the direct link works)
Many of the suggested plans seem to include hotel rooms on floors 3-7, possible residential uses on 8-10, and a restaurant or banquet room on 11 where "High Notes" was most recently located. The RFP also urges the developer to basically leave the Gold Room alone because it holds special meaning to Davenport and Quad City residents. I don't think that the potential developer has to follow these guidelines necessarily, but they are what the study recommended.
Here's a quote about what "kind" of hotel the city envisions:
The recommended hotel configuration is as a 100-room, mid-price, limited service hotel (e.g., Hampton Inn, Fairfield, Holiday Inn Express)
There are significant obstacles to attaining a higher-priced nationally recognized brand (e.g., Hilton Garden Inn, Courtyard by Marriott, Holiday Inn), including:
o Reluctance to consider conversion of an existing hotel property
o Additional renovation issues to comply with brand standards
o These brands are more expensive to build and require higher room rates than appear to be attainable in the local market
It will be very interesting to see how many proposals are submitted by the December 15th qualification deadline.
17 comments:
Our city is dreaming. Isn't that special. We can only hope for the best for **Good Old Downtown Davenport**. It would be nice to have a AAA+ hotel in downtown area. The area is right minus our crime. I hope it can work in our favor. Probably will end up low-income rentals. Hope not! I grew up in the era when downtown was the place to be.
I would say we already have one quality hotel downtown in the Radisson.
Hmmm
The Radison is a quality hotel? Guess you've never eaten there. But there is a need for people who can't afford the ir rates and don't want to go to the Howard Johnson/crack den.
Go Buckeyes!
Go Buckeyes??? Well atleast that's a possitive message.
The Gold Room is beautiful. They should turn it into a restuarant.
Flarity better raise the meter fees and the parking ticket fees to cover the $5000 in damages caused by the homeless man in the parking ramp. Makes one wonder how this guy could be Living in the Parking Ramp, and no city employee noticed him, or his little incampment. Some staffer fumbled the ball again.
We had our wedding reception at the Radisson. Not sure if their catered food is different from what they serve at the restaurant, but our food was excellent. I've eaten there two other times and found the food to be fine.
The food that the Radisson serves at the river center resembles something that comes out of an Alpo can.
YOu are all wrong. Eat at the Raddison - great salad bar for lunch. Very nice.
Maybe their catering isn't as good as their restaurant.
Who the hell cares about the food. It's okay, but it isn't Alpo. Some people just have to bitch about EVERYTHING. They must be a real riot to live with!! Yikes.
Thanks 8:21.
8:21 has obviously never ordered a Sirloin there. When you stick a fork in - it whinnies like Mr. Ed.
So is the Isle Corp going to clean the Blackhawk up before the city gets it, or are taxpayers stuck cleaning up the fire left behind?
I'm pretty sure neither. The city is hoping to sell its "option to purchase for $1" to the final user/winner of the RFP process, so the city never takes ownership of the actual structure. I believe.
Hopefully, Davenport will negoiate the Hotel RFP better than the negoiations went with the Stadium Lease. Taxpayers got the short end of the stick in that Public/Private partership. [ AGAIN ]
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