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I am guessing at some point if all does not got right, then there will be too many hotels to have the center expand how they wanna do so. they know the center needs more space, but just too much bs and money it takes is just dragging it out which seems like forever lol. i really dont think they need another hotel, cause they really need to expand more.
Read through about the deal and they still wanna build another hotel in an area already saturated i guess but so many already. They need better ideas then just another hotel lol. unless they assume a new hotel is gonna do or be any better then those around already.
City and port leaders agreed Tuesday to buy out a hotel developer for more than $33 million to regain control of a waterfront parcel crucial to expanding the San Diego Convention Center.Although an expansion of the center still depends on the outcome of a proposed hotel tax increase likely to face voters this November, Tuesday’s action by the San Diego City Council and Port Commissioners cleared a major hurdle that had threatened to undo the long-planned project.
We're now just a single hurdle away from the convention center actually, finally expanding -- all but guaranteeing Comic-Con will be here to stay forever.Please don't play with my emotions, citizens of San Diego...let this happen!
The two thirds threshold seems like a pipe dream, but a simple majority I could see happening.
Then came a Wednesday bombshell.The county registrar’s random sampling of signatures the campaign turned in last month revealed the measure did not cross the state-mandated threshold to avoid a full count and evaluation of each signature. That would trigger a weeks-long review process that would run through much of September. The deadline to make the November ballot is this Friday.The mayor’s team jumped into action on Wednesday, urging the City Council to act and making necessary tweaks to ballot language to make it a city measure. It means that the citizens’ initiative would likely be done, the donors’ losses booked and the requirement for voter support solidified at two-thirds. By late afternoon, City Council President Myrtle Cole called a special City Council meeting. City Councilman Chris Cate, who is on paternity leave after the birth of his daughter just a week ago, agreed to come to the meeting and City Councilman Mark Kersey, who is visiting Ohio, made plans to call in. The mayor’s office also had to plan around City Council President Pro Tem Barbara Bry’s Friday vacation plans. City Councilman Chris Ward is already gone. In spite of the travel and hectic preparation, the mayor’s team believes it can secure the five votes necessary to send the measure to the ballot despite the last-minute panic.
A divided San Diego City Council said no Thursday to putting a measure on the ballot to expand the city’s bayfront convention center, rebuffing Mayor Kevin Faulconer’s pleas to do so. The council had been asked to move the measure forward after a citizens’ initiative that would have boosted the hotel tax to finance the expansion project failed to secure enough valid signatures to make it onto the ballot. The measure would have also funded homeless initiatives and road repairs.
Well then. That was dealt with rather swiftly by city council.At this point I honestly have no idea where the mayor and proponents of a convention center expansion go from here.If I were a gambling man, I say that CCI stays put here in San Diego even if the convention center cannot expand.
If I were a gambling man, I say that CCI stays put here in San Diego even if the convention center cannot expand.
Yeah I don’t think the convention is going anywhere. They definitely could not do outside events during SDCC in vegas the heat is just awful. Unless they changed the date of the convention which I don’t see them doing.The issue I see is not with the convention center but with the hotels that host stuff they have to be willing to keep hosting stuff like indigo ballroom at the Hilton bayfront and so on like using the children’s museum and petco park. If those venues decide we don’t want to participate anymore in SDCC. Then the convention would definitely have to move! There would just be no space for anything.