Urban Construction Update - September 2011

[tufsu1]

What do they sell at the Wells Fargo store?  It just looks like any banking branch in the picture.

it is a bank branch

[ChriswUfGator]

Wells is BY FAR one of the best nationwide banks out there.

If more banks behaved like they did... we wouldn't have had the collapse in banking a few years ago.

Watching John Strumpf get railroaded by the Senate a few years ago was a shameful moment in the history of the banking and finance subcommittee. 

You can't see it from the outside, but virtually all of the hotels downtown have upgraded their facilities in the last 6 months.  Even the Hampton on the Southbank has had pretty extensive renovations done recently.

I'm just not certain that sound financial planning has to be mutually exclusive with not screwing your customers...

JD Power & Associates' most recent Banking Customer Satisfaction Study;

(Wells is literally dead last, it's not even close)

http://www.jdpower.com/finance/ratings/retail-banking-ratings/southeast/

To their customers, they suck like an electrolux.

[Doctor_K]

To their customers, they suck like an electrolux.

<Snicker>  It's all in how you look at it.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Even the Hampton on the Southbank has had pretty extensive renovations done recently.

It wasn't by choice.  If you remember, a sore Colts fan turned on a fire main on the top floor last year and the building was entirely flooded from the top down.

[tufsu1]

nope...that's the 2 Hilton hotels....the Hampton (still Hilton family) is a different hotel

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Yep.  You're correct, Hilton Gardens on King St.

[fieldafm]

Wells is BY FAR one of the best nationwide banks out there.

If more banks behaved like they did... we wouldn't have had the collapse in banking a few years ago.

Watching John Strumpf get railroaded by the Senate a few years ago was a shameful moment in the history of the banking and finance subcommittee. 

You can't see it from the outside, but virtually all of the hotels downtown have upgraded their facilities in the last 6 months.  Even the Hampton on the Southbank has had pretty extensive renovations done recently.

I'm just not certain that sound financial planning has to be mutually exclusive with not screwing your customers...

JD Power & Associates' most recent Banking Customer Satisfaction Study;

(Wells is literally dead last, it's not even close)

http://www.jdpower.com/finance/ratings/retail-banking-ratings/southeast/

To their customers, they suck like an electrolux.

We'll agree to disagree... in that survey they are seperating out Wells and Wachovia. 

What's even more odd, is how low Wells ranks in that survey in regards to fees.  They actually have far less fees than Regions and BB&T which 'rank' better.

The Wells mortgage and insurance divisions always top the ASCI rankings.

It's all perspective.

Very happy Wells Fargo customer, myself.

[JaxNative68]

Is it just me, or are the precast panels being hung on the baptist tower a complete horror show?  It looks like they are going back and applying a coating on them to attempt to lose the quilt-like appearance. 
Hopefully baptist realizes they a getting a huge future maintanence bill to keep them looking nice.

[heights unknown]

Are they ever going to finish that dang courthouse?

[tufsu1]

move in is scheduled for the last two weeks of May