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Article: How about 2 smaller hotels next to Convention Center? CRA mulls alternative to constructing one big hotel. (Los Angeles Convention Center; Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- January 17, 1994
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The Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency has expanded its push to get a hotel built near the newly expanded Los Angeles Convention Center.
According to staff members and commissioners on the CRA board, the agency is approaching several potential developers about the project, and is studying whether it might be easier to build two or more smaller properties rather than one big hotel.
In the past, city officials have always talked in terms of a Convention Center hotel with between 1,000 and 1,400 rooms. The largest hotel right now in Los Angeles County is the Westin Bonaventure in downtown Los Angeles, which has close to 1,400 rooms.
The ...