New Hotel David Whitney

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Look at Indianapolis. They have 7,100 rooms in which almost half of them are very close or even tunnel attached to their convention center. Their convention center is only ranked 25th in size as compared to Huntingon Place which is ranked 9th [[depending how you rank them). Indianapolis is no magical city and definitely the weather isn't much better than Detroit, but they have a much, much more vibrant convention schedule plus they cleanup with hosting sporting events [[Big 10 basketball and football championship plus many more. See here: Event History | Indiana Sports Corp. Detroit will NEVER be Orlando, LV, or even Chicago for convention destinations, but we should compete if NOT overtake Indianapolis. Just need another 2-6 [[400-800 room) hotels near Huntington Place

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Look at Indianapolis. They have 7,100 rooms in which almost half of them are very close or even tunnel attached to their convention center. Their convention center is only ranked 25th in size as compared to Huntingon Place which is ranked 9th [[depending how you rank them). Indianapolis is no magical city and definitely the weather isn't much better than Detroit, but they have a much, much more vibrant convention schedule plus they cleanup with hosting sporting events [[Big 10 basketball and football championship plus many more. See here: Event History | Indiana Sports Corp. Detroit will NEVER be Orlando, LV, or even Chicago for convention destinations, but we should compete if NOT overtake Indianapolis. Just need another 2-6 [[400-800 room) hotels near Huntington Place

The trend in Montreal in the past ten years is a bigger offer from midsize and boutique hotels. The percentage of small vs big has really gone up dramatically, and the offer is more varied. The addition to Detroit’s offer by pushing renovation of some office buildings in the CBD would help repurpose some of the glut in the office market. Every city in the world has at least partial motion towards transforming office to hotel/apartment.

There was a rumour this week that CN might move their HQ to National Bank’s old HQ since they moved into a new skyscraper last year. CN’s HQ wouldn’t be class A anymore, so the rumour mill pointed to a probable conversion to condos if it happens. Since Covid, WFH means companies need less space, but value class A above all else as a strategy to attract office workers.