FORT WORTH, TX A new city-funded study concludes that the downtown area here could support two more high-end hotels one near the Fort Worth Convention Center, and the other in the Texas & Pacific (T&P) Terminal Building. Fort Worth officials hired Chicago-based C.H. Johnson Consulting to update a 1996 convention center hotel study. The firm was also asked to determine what effect a proposed conversion of the 1931 T&P building into a 330-room, railroad-themed hotel would have on the convention center hotel project.
The hotels were originally thought to be competing efforts, but city officials said they now believe that the two projects could be a catalyst to bring in high-dollar convention business. C.H. Johnson s findings could make City Hall more willing to support the T&P project because the hotel would complement the ongoing $72.9 million renovation of the city s convention center. (1/29/01)
SOURCE:Star-Telegram