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Originally Posted by Austin_Expert
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I'm really confused now. Most of the other articles or documents I've read indicate an eight story building with parking on the first three levels and the
rooms on the top 5 floors. I just don't see how they're going to squeeze 298 rooms into 5 floors on a lot that size. That would be 60 rooms per floor.
When news of this project first surfaced back in April, it said one hotel with 180-200 rooms and it would be a
$30 million project. The recent link posted by Austin Expert says
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A $52 million project that will have a 164-room Holiday Inn Express and a 134-room Hotel Indigo, a boutique brand, is due to start in December at Red River and East Ninth streets across from Stubb’s.
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At first, I thought maybe when the project was initially announced back in April, it would have been a Holiday Inn Express, but now they decided to upgrade it to a Hotel Indigo (like the Marriott Marquis was upgraded to a J W Marriott.)
But the fact that the project cost estimate has gone from $30 million to $52 million
does make it sound like two separate hotels.
But unless they're going to put all the parking underground and/or bought additional land in that block, I still don't see how they'll get 298 rooms in an eight-story building that only takes up half a city block.