Downtown Hilton is gonna I guess be host to visiting teams still, but they gotta hate losing football team for home games, it was a draw to their premises.Grumpy said:
"Official hotel of Baylor Athletics." Interesting that they paid for that moniker and relationship with Baylor even before breaking ground. I had always thought Baylor should have its own hotel, like a number of other colleges, and have a hospitality major so that students could staff the hotel. I realize this is probably not going to be that kind of set up, but it's nice to have a hotel so close to the sports venues.
I think something was already built on that site.57Bear said:
Is that where the Bush Library was proposed?
Apparently, you aren't aware of the manliness I bring to Waco when I am present.whitetrash said:
That rendering shows mountains in the background (see bottom left corner beyond the lightpoles). Wherever it will be, there are no mountains in any direction from the low swampy land across from the new track.
Women only? So you're going to leave out Stranger?TellMeYouLoveMe said:
It would be nice if we could line the streets with banners of famous, ok, semifamous Baylor women that have appeared briefly in Hollywood film and TV spots.
We can start with Crystal Bernard and go all the way to Angela Kinsey.
Imagine the publicity!
TellMeYouLoveMe said:
It would be nice if we could line the streets with banners of famous, ok, semifamous Baylor women that have appeared briefly in Hollywood film and TV spots.
We can start with Crystal Bernard and go all the way to Angela Kinsey.
Imagine the publicity!
Most significant colleges/universities already have their own hotels on campus. I have stayed in several -- including ones at LSU, Iowa, UNC and Cal-Berkeley. Indeed there is a room in the LSU hotel that was "supersized" especially for one of the facility's leading donors -- Shaquille O'Neal.Redbrickbear said:
Most colleges are building their own hotels on campus.
They seem to be money generators.
ut has had one for a while now..
arkansas, auburn, lsu, bama have one.
and aggy just built one on campus....of course its ugly as heck.
The landfill off of Highway 84. Book it.whitetrash said:
That rendering shows mountains in the background (see bottom left corner beyond the lightpoles).
Yea, it was stupid of me to think that the Regents would have any vision in them.Media Bear said:Most significant colleges/universities already have their own hotels on campus. I have stayed in several -- including ones at LSU, Iowa, UNC and Cal-Berkeley. Indeed there is a room in the LSU hotel that was "supersized" especially for one of the facility's leading donors -- Shaquille O'Neal.Redbrickbear said:
Most colleges are building their own hotels on campus.
They seem to be money generators.
ut has had one for a while now..
arkansas, auburn, lsu, bama have one.
and aggy just built one on campus....of course its ugly as heck.
If this truly is a BU hotel (and not some corporate chain venture -- at least one of which is also targeting colleges/universities nationwide), it is just another step in BU playing catch-up with other peer universities ...
these posts always make me laugh especially considering there are CEOs or former CEOs on the board of regents for companies like Walmart, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Baylor, Scott & White, Weatherford Intl, Comstock and many other well run companies.Redbrickbear said:Yea, it was stupid of me to think that the Regents would have any vision in them.Media Bear said:Most significant colleges/universities already have their own hotels on campus. I have stayed in several -- including ones at LSU, Iowa, UNC and Cal-Berkeley. Indeed there is a room in the LSU hotel that was "supersized" especially for one of the facility's leading donors -- Shaquille O'Neal.Redbrickbear said:
Most colleges are building their own hotels on campus.
They seem to be money generators.
ut has had one for a while now..
arkansas, auburn, lsu, bama have one.
and aggy just built one on campus....of course its ugly as heck.
If this truly is a BU hotel (and not some corporate chain venture -- at least one of which is also targeting colleges/universities nationwide), it is just another step in BU playing catch-up with other peer universities ...
I mean they can't even play "follow the leader" with the big boys and just copy them.
If everyone is building an on campus hotel and then letting someone manage it for them......it would show there is a demand and that these schools are making money off it.
Baylor's leaders have proven time and again to have NO vision, NO plan, and No clue about how to effectively run a major university.
Brian Ethridge said:TellMeYouLoveMe said:
It would be nice if we could line the streets with banners of famous, ok, semifamous Baylor women that have appeared briefly in Hollywood film and TV spots.
We can start with Crystal Bernard and go all the way to Angela Kinsey.
Imagine the publicity!
Missing a few more.
Based on initial comments (without specifics) I thought this was going to be by Brazos Parking and the apartments that used to be crackhouses but have been reasonably cleaned up.Ashley Hodge said:
some interesting details here:
https://www.waco-texas.com/userfiles/cms-root/file/Z-18-19.pdf
So, is this project actually moving forward? Would be kinda cool.Ashley Hodge said:
some interesting details here:
https://www.waco-texas.com/userfiles/cms-root/file/Z-18-19.pdf
[/url]easy there little regent cultist.Fozzie said:Redbrickbear said:Yea, it was stupid of me to think that the Regents would have any vision in them.Media Bear said:Most significant colleges/universities already have their own hotels on campus. I have stayed in several -- including ones at LSU, Iowa, UNC and Cal-Berkeley. Indeed there is a room in the LSU hotel that was "supersized" especially for one of the facility's leading donors -- Shaquille O'Neal.Redbrickbear said:
Most colleges are building their own hotels on campus.
They seem to be money generators.
ut has had one for a while now..
arkansas, auburn, lsu, bama have one.
and aggy just built one on campus....of course its ugly as heck.
If this truly is a BU hotel (and not some corporate chain venture -- at least one of which is also targeting colleges/universities nationwide), it is just another step in BU playing catch-up with other peer universities ...
I mean they can't even play "follow the leader" with the big boys and just copy them.
If everyone is building an on campus hotel and then letting someone manage it for them......it would show there is a demand and that these schools are making money off it.
Baylor's leaders have proven time and again to have NO vision, NO plan, and No clue about how to effectively run a major university.
To say these men and women have vision to run successful companies and some of the largest companies in the world but can't help guide a university doesn't make much sense to me.
Y'all are excellent at finding things to ***** about. Seriously? Is it really surprising that an entirely privately funded university in Texas is not on the bleeding edge of facilities, especially as it relates to building a hotel? And as sure as you guys are *****ing about that, someone will come along and ***** about "How could we possibly be doing this risky thing when tuition is where it is?"Redbrickbear said:Yea, it was stupid of me to think that the Regents would have any vision in them.Media Bear said:Most significant colleges/universities already have their own hotels on campus. I have stayed in several -- including ones at LSU, Iowa, UNC and Cal-Berkeley. Indeed there is a room in the LSU hotel that was "supersized" especially for one of the facility's leading donors -- Shaquille O'Neal.Redbrickbear said:
Most colleges are building their own hotels on campus.
They seem to be money generators.
ut has had one for a while now..
arkansas, auburn, lsu, bama have one.
and aggy just built one on campus....of course its ugly as heck.
If this truly is a BU hotel (and not some corporate chain venture -- at least one of which is also targeting colleges/universities nationwide), it is just another step in BU playing catch-up with other peer universities ...
I mean they can't even play "follow the leader" with the big boys and just copy them.
If everyone is building an on campus hotel and then letting someone manage it for them......it would show there is a demand and that these schools are making money off it.
Baylor's leaders have proven time and again to have NO vision, NO plan, and No clue about how to effectively run a major university.
Hmm.....I'm surprised this location was chosen. This will be literally surrounded by dump like literally long abandoned property that looks like it can be used for the set of Walking Dead. I know something has to be first in a redeveloped area but this is going to be a weird location for something that is really nice for a while, perhaps along time. It is pretty close to McLennan County's Correctional Facilities, which are not ever going to be redone to be attractive. I was envisioning this to be down the street (MLK) from the football stadium and literally across the river from the the new hoops facility.whitetrash said:Based on initial comments (without specifics) I thought this was going to be by Brazos Parking and the apartments that used to be crackhouses but have been reasonably cleaned up.Ashley Hodge said:
some interesting details here:
https://www.waco-texas.com/userfiles/cms-root/file/Z-18-19.pdf
Instead this is proposed on part of the old Young Brothers gravel pit and storage yard across LaSalle at the dead end of MLK. As the crow flies, it would be roughly the same distance from the FC as the Mayborn Museum, and the same distance from McLane as the Courtyard downtown, if not a little further. Right now there is no pedestrian access to FC area (no sidewalk on LaSalle bridge, plus the need to cross the drainage ditch that runs between the FC parking lot and LaSalle). I would presume the new arena would include continuation of the riverwalk to and beyond LaSalle, but adding pedestrian access across the river would require a new bridge or an widening of the existing one.
And as far as proximity to local amenities, the closest restaurants to the site are the DQ and Subway at 2nd and LaSalle, and the closest gas station/C-store is the Alon a block further.
whitetrash said:
The plan shows they're using a lot of the color gold. Honest-to-goodness genuine gold.
That's the only thing which matters--right????
