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Local News - Local News - February 14, 2013
Spokane Convention Center hotel waits on appraisals
Worthy says intent letter extended until June 1 as PFD studies valuations

By Mike McLean
Of the Journal of Business

This conceptual drawing shows what the proposed convention center hotel could look like if built as planned on the downtown city block south of the INB Performing Arts Center.
This conceptual drawing shows what the proposed convention center hotel could look like if built as planned on the downtown city block south of the INB Performing Arts Center.
—Rendering courtesy of DCI Engineers
Spokane hotelier and developer Walt Worthy says a formal development agreement that would clear the way for work to start on a $50 million convention center headquarters hotel downtown is progressing slower than he had envisioned, as the Spokane Public Facilities District is conducting appraisals on the proposed site.

Worthy and his wife, Karen, signed a letter of intent in September announcing their vision to develop a 15-story, 700-room hotel and six-story parking garage on prope...


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