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Detroit City Council holding up new 500-room hotel at Crowne Plaza
By CHAD LIVENGOOD. Crain's Detroit Business. July 30, 2018
Detroit City Council is holding up construction of a new 28-story 500-bed hotel across from Cobo Center over concerns about the existing Crowne Plaza hotel's customer service, an unsubstantiated bed bug infestation and treatment of employees after a failed unionization vote.
In June, City Council voted down a site plan request from the owners of the Crowne Plaza to build a second 338-foot hotel that would connect to Cobo Center with a pedestrian bridge over Washington Boulevard, sending the project back to committee and delaying the developer's construction schedule.
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Disclaimer, one of the city council members was a former union worker who championed for unionization at this hotel around the same time the bed bugs were complained about.
In the end, this project is held back because of politics which is a little more disappointing than it not getting a redesign.