Quote Originally Posted by mikeg19 View Post
With the influx of people and the addition of several hotels in the area, why would the developer decide to use valuable floor space for yet another hotel? Wouldn't it be more profitable to use this entire building for apartments?
Fair question.

Apparently the developer probably feels one of two things:

1). Hotel rooms are more profitable than apartments.

OR

2). There will be increase demand for hotel rooms in the arena area. The only proposed hotel in the ARENA area is, of course, Henry/Woodward. My guess is that the developer feels there is more demand in the area.

I assume the hotel rooms would be for sports and entertainment travelers and some associated with the WSU school of business. The location is close to both but 'off the beaten path' to downtown [[a few block walk to QLine).