From time to time, we report on the “progress” of the UCLA
Grand Hotel. Sometimes, it’s helpful to
illustrate just how grand it will be.
According to the official website for the Grand Hotel, it will have 250
rooms and 25,000 square feet of conference space. So how big is that? We have in past postings compared it with
hotels in the local area. It’s big! Below is another comparison. A developer in Santa Monica is proposing a
hotel with 136 rooms at 5th and Colorado. The proposal is drawing opposition which you
can read about at http://www.smmirror.com/articles/News/Santa-Monica-Churches-Speak-Out-Against-Proposed-Hotel-At-5thColorado/38323
. But here is a picture of the Santa
Monica proposed hotel which is roughly only half the size of the UCLA Grand
Hotel – and yet it is pretty darned big.
Meanwhile, as we have noted in earlier posts, the official
groundbreaking is scheduled for September 10.
But much breaking of ground is now occurring as you can see below from
photos of the site taken earlier today.
Really, the only
question remaining is why is the ceremony to be held on campus? If you want to premier a Grand Hotel, there
are much better ways and places to do it:
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