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Originally Posted by esquire
Given that Chipman and Co. was one of Bowman's most influential backers not that long ago, I'm going to assume that nothing Bowman does - including this - will contradict anything in the Longboat playbook. As Simplicity alluded, Chipman may have already achieved the desired outcome with the option on the Carlton Inn land... whatever happens now is beside the point.
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Exactly. Everything at this point is window-dressing. It'll be months before anything can be done to affect that option, months before anybody has an RFP ready to be launched, and a year before anybody could possibly have their ducks in a row and proper proposal submitted that would bring about a hotel on that space. It's dead and True North and CV killed it. Right alongside MPI who decided development of their adjacent site just had to happen now, right as the MLCC was deciding to move downtown.
And it was reported this morning that Ken Reiss had a proposal alongside Stuart Olson for the Carlton Inn site featuring a hotel and mixed-use office tower that Deloitte had short-listed for the MLCC offices that Ross McGowan first actively ignored and then actively killed.
Everything's already sorted, it's just not public. And every developer is going to know that. So you can put out an RFP on that site all you'd like, it's just meaningless procedure. Nobody credible is going to respond.