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Teall suddenly asked if the hotel couldn’t seek guaranteed advance bookings (presumably to show that it would be viable) but was told by several committee members and staff that this was not practicable. He noted that he had heard from authoritative sources that the “tipping point” for conference centers was 40,000 S.F and indicated that he was concerned about the possible success with the reduced capacity. With regard to the Valiant letter, Rapundalo mentioned the offer to reduce the size of the conference center to 25,000 S.F. (Note that Valiant said in their letter that they had already hired a consultant to do a study.) CM Rapundalo said that they would need to “clarify” this – whether it is a requirement going forward (having independent studies) and who would pay for it. John Splitt said that they (Acquest) were suggesting that someone else should pay for them.

Sam Offen asked who is paying for the independent studies that Acquest is asking for. (As outlined in the Valiant letter, the Ann Arbor hotel market is already saturated and the only hope for a new one would be that a conference center would pull in new business.) CM Rapundalo (the chair of the RFP committee) concluded that “we have to stick with the parameters …(the context of the Library Lot)… they added (another) component but as far as I’m concerned, it has nothing to do with what we’ve asked for”. CM Teall commented that she was concerned that they might not succeed without it. Apparently Acquest is backing off an outright demand that this would happen as a prerequisite of their proposal.

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The letter from Acquest, judging from the very discreet discussion of it (the committee seems to be perfecting a special language of code words and half sentences), dealt with the awkward question of Acquest’s expectation that the city, and possibly the county, would build a conference center on the old Y lot. These two letters were the major subject of discussion at the February 23 meeting. (Correspondence, including questions and responses, was posted earlier.) We were able to post a letter from Valiant Partners by obtaining a hard copy of the letter, but the letter from Acquest to the committee was evidently more closely held. This is indicated by the fact that most of what was discussed at the February 23 meeting – two letters from proposers – was not placed on the website, despite requests to make them public. One consequence appears to be a loss of the relative transparency that the committee was displaying. With the exit of Jayne Miller, the management of the committee has been transferred directly to the city administrator’s office. But somehow it will be necessary to make this decision respectable, or at least not politically damaging. As we have frequently noted, there has been a “secret plan” to put a conference center on the Library Lot for years. (No new meeting scheduled at present.) Also speculation on what it means and where we go from here.Īt the latest Library Lot RFP advisory committee meeting (February 23), it became more and more evident that city officials are going to take every possible step to bring a conference center proposal before the council. A report on the FebruLibrary Lot RFP Advisory Committee meeting.