After three weeks and as many e-mail messages, NewsLanc has yet to hear back from Thomas Smithgall, Senior V.P. of Development for High Real Estate Group, regarding the decision to jointly meter the Marriott Hotel and the Lancaster County Convention Center…
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Tom Smithgall contradicts architects Cooper Carry!
Architects Cooper Carry in three separate interviews maintained that the owner’s representative instructed them not to separately meter the convention center and the hotel. Tom Smithgall and Mark Fitzgerald of the High Group were identified by name as instructing them…
Cooper Carry heads for cover
The following is an exchange between Pope Bullock of Cooper Carry, the architectural firm that designed the Convention Center Project, and Robert Field, publisher of NewsLanc.com.
ARCHITECT FIRM SAYS OWNERS DECIDED ON CC PROJECT METERING
Here is how taking an extra step in reporting turns a sensation into possibly a non-event. The representative of the architectural firm of Cooper Carry insists that no one from their firm was involved in the decision to not meter the Marriott Hotel separately from the Convention Center. (The hotel and convention center are billed together for electricity and gas.)
Latest Convention Center scandal
[In response to “Another CC/Hotel Scandal?”] Newslanc may be at a loss but this reader is not. While the lack of proper and separate metering may fly in the face of common sense and the most basic responsibilities for the LCCCA to provide accountability and transparency to the taxpayer, this omission is well in-line with […]
Another CC/Hotel scandal?
The Convention Center Authority owns the convention center building. Penn Square Partners (via RACL) is the equitable owner of the Marriott Hotel. And there are certain areas which are owned and operated in common. So in designing the electric and gas systems, the engineers would arrange for separate meters for the three different areas. Correct?…