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Irresponsibility and a callous disregard for public sentiment were voted in by a Carmel City Council bent on covering its mistakes with a veneer of whitewash. As the tailor who sold the emperor his new clothes would say, “Gee, that’s a good look for you.
Hell, $40M ($328,000/room) is an outrageous number for a mid-rise 122-room suburban hotel, let alone $59M!
Needs an autonomous entity not a City affiliate of any kind for a forensic audit. Hotels built to quality standards have a commercial construction cost in 2018 of $463 per SQ FT. This cost per SQ FT assumes unionized labor. The “average” hotel costs $22.2 million to complete.Oct 16, 2018. Therefore average hotel costs for 2019 costs it could increase by around 25% or 5.5 million or say around $30 million. if originally the contractor bid at 38 million due to exclusivity market type then we should say max should be $47.5 million. then the contractor should be held liable if it is a bonded contract as most government work is and then the contractor is at fault. If not , then who added all the change orders to bring it up to that point of over $ 50 million?. I developed the first Marriott in Indianapolis back in 1974 and Marriott was heavily involved in the franchising and costs and had a world of experience in hotel costs.I’d day they would be the first place to turn to for a reliable 3rd party overview and audit.
Some of these people need to be behind bars. No Joke.
John M. has it right. While local officials claim unforeseen increases in labor and material expenses are mostly to blame, construction experts elsewhere say the hotel’s inflated costs are far beyond what other projects are experiencing. So perhaps the “luxury” finishes required by Marriott for Autograph hotels are the true reason. Wrong. A simple Google search of existing Autograph hotels in St. Louis and Chicago show pictures of rooms that are not dissimilar to J.W. Marriott room standards. In other words, hardly over-the-top luxe. So it appears the budget-busting costs are really the fault of Jim Brainard who desperately wants a trophy hotel to cap his extreme makeover of the suburb.
Sounds like typical politics to me. Officials and those in power don’t care about the people anymore. I’ll be surprised if anything positive comes out of this.
I bet is has a very nice lobby though!
The Carmel Redevelopment Commission who has oversight of the Hotel Carmichael met for only 5 hours in all of 2019. What does that tell Carmel taxpayers?