Schnitzer Northwest says it will reconsider the hotel component of its $500-million development next to Meydenbauer Convention Center if that facility isn't expanded, and convention center officials say they won't expand the convention center without assurance the hotels will be built.
The city council will solve the Catch-22 by deciding whether it will issue and back bonds for the convention center expansion. If the council still thinks it's a good idea, the convention center will be expanded and the hotels will be built, say officials with both projects.
Planned for a superblock adjacent to the convention center, Schnitzer's five-tower project includes two hotels totaling 625 rooms and three office buildings totaling about one million sf, all atop a 141,000-sf retail podium that in turn will sit on a 3,500-slip underground parking garage.
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