I suppose this won’t be a big surprise, but Jim Schutze and the Dallas Observer and the Morning News offer decidedly different views of the convention center hotel project this week. In Schutze’s piece, he takes a look at some of the specific numbers in the analysis that led to council approval for the hotel and concludes that we’ll be lucky if the thing works; he also points out that perhaps the council should spend some time and money solving basic issues like pot-holed streets and deteriorating sidewalks instead. The DMN, on the other hand, takes a more circumspect view of the situation, using interviews with city operators elsewhere to indicate that just about everyone everywhere else believes that their cities’ investment in their own convention center hotel was a smart move. No solutions today, just more facts and more questions…
