Posted Feb 6, 2008, 2:37 AM
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“The Big EasyChair”
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: 🌳🌴🌲 Sacramento 🌳 🌴🌲
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Originally Posted by innov8
The new hotel would have seven floors instead of ten like proposed. Also,
there is a hotel at the airport that sits right across the street from Terminal B
but it only has 89 rooms, so it looks like they are trying to boost that number
to meet demand.
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Actually part of the hotel will remain at ten stories. Just the western most side of the tower will be reduced, so that the hotel will be 7 stories on the western most side and 10 stories on the east side.
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The west flank of a planned high-rise airport hotel now will be three stories shorter. Otherwise, it would have blocked air traffic tower controllers' view of a portion of the west runway.
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As for airport architects, they say shortening the west side of the hotel is not all bad.
"It may create a more interesting-looking building than a square block at the end of the terminal," said Brent Kelley of Corgan Associates.
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