DIA hotel project delayed -- again
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DIA today: many teepees but no reservations.
Press reports about Denver International Airport in the late 1990s included lots of optimistic forecasting about the arrival of a luxury hotel at the airport's doorstep by, oh, no later than 2002 or so. More than a decade later, that hotel still doesn't exist except in the minds of DIA management -- and groundbreaking just got delayed again.
The history of the Grand Non-Hotel is a study in how differently things have evolved at DIA than originally envisioned. After hotel operators balked at the expected high costs (and vacancy rates) of a property so far from town, Denver officials decided it would build and own the hotel, contracting with Westin's parent company to operate it. Then FAA concerns about the design produced more delays, followed by an uncertain/dismal economy.
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