Aloft Hotel Coming to Tapestry Park

[Shwaz]

How about a Hard Rock right off 103rd?

[Captain Zissou]

Adding density to a fairly urban-ish development is a win in my book.  Maybe this will be the new minimum for developments in Jax.  if new significant projects are required to be At Least this dense and well planned, then I think we're headed down the right path. 

I wonder who will get a street car first, gate parkway, or DT.

[Captain Zissou]

How about a Hard Rock right off 103rd?

YES!! That will compliment the Westin on Normandy perfectly.

[thelakelander]

DT will get it first.  The JTB corridor would be better served by LRT than streetcar.

[Captain Zissou]

Lake, I was thinking about a street car from Tapestry Park/ Tinsletown to the Towncenter.  There are enough jobs and residents within about 2.5 miles and now some large commercial draws to almost justify one.

[tufsu1]

Lake, I was thinking about a street car from Tapestry Park/ Tinsletown to the Towncenter.  There are enough jobs and residents within about 2.5 miles and now some large commercial draws to almost justify one.

only if it is funded by the businesses in the area.

[copperfiend]

Lake, I was thinking about a street car from Tapestry Park/ Tinsletown to the Towncenter.  There are enough jobs and residents within about 2.5 miles and now some large commercial draws to almost justify one.

only if it is funded by the businesses in the area.

It would probably just be a shuttlebus disguised as a street car.

[simms3]

Maybe Starwood is testing out our market with these Aloft Hotels to see if a full scale/full service W hotel would be profitable here when the economy comes back.  If we had a W hotel downtown, it would serve as a nightlife hotspot, would serve restaurant needs, hotel needs, more meeting space, and would play host to numerous high profile events throughout the year.  I live one block from W Midtown in Atlanta, and it is hopping every night and features a famed chef from New York in its main restaurant.  It has several bars and a nightclub and hosts fashion shows and fundraisers with celebrities all year long.  It is one of the biggest draws of the area.  Before it was a Sheraton hotel that was nothing special.

[Jason]

That would be a great addition to the Landing.

[copperfiend]

Isn't/Wasn't W run by one of the two founders of Studio 54?

[finehoe]

If we had a W hotel downtown, it would serve as a nightlife hotspot, would serve restaurant needs, hotel needs, more meeting space, and would play host to numerous high profile events throughout the year.  I live one block from W Midtown in Atlanta, and it is hopping every night and features a famed chef from New York in its main restaurant.  It has several bars and a nightclub and hosts fashion shows and fundraisers with celebrities all year long.  It is one of the biggest draws of the area. 

That would be cool.  However, I don't think the W they recently opened in Ft. Lauderdale is doing too well.  If that one is floundering, it's hard to imagine that one in Jacksonville could do better.  Too bad.

[hightowerlover]

the longest corridor of strip malls in the city is not southside blvd... but beach blvd

[reednavy]

That would be cool.  However, I don't think the W they recently opened in Ft. Lauderdale is doing too well.  If that one is floundering, it's hard to imagine that one in Jacksonville could do better.  Too bad.

The hotel portion is doing just fine, its the fact it had a lot of residences in the project that has hurt it. However, both towers did get built and was joined by Trump, St. Regis and Ritz-Carlton at the same time during the boom.

[DemocraticNole]

Tallahassee opened an Aloft within the last year, but they smartly put it downtown. I will say though that of the suburban locations to choose from, this is one of the better ones because of the density in the area.

[reednavy]

Now don't forget they still have a proposed location at Avenues Walk. Whether it goes through or not is in the air, but I'm not betting on it.