Took a few RE classes with dyson. I liked him. If he's five or six years out of teaching perhaps he just has a lot of money and time to spend. Why not try.
That said, the location is certainly fringe. Yet if someone had told me BU was going to build a stadium on the other side of the brazos 10 years ago I would have said the same thing.
Waco could use some Class A+ hotel space, particularly if they continue developing the north side of the campus.
Is the demand there? Certainly they would run some fairly detailed market feasibility studies to find out. Dyson is no slouch.
Hope it works better than expected and Waco continues to grow.
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