Will Aloft hotels bring down property values elsewhere, not just BWI?
Austin (my hometown) recently got an Aloft. It's inside a mall development next to the new (not yet open) Westin.
The Aloft is open, but not very many of their
promotions are actually geared toward hotel guests. Instead they apparently hope to draw the
drunk, violent locals (so far concentrated around Sixth Street downtown) into the hotel bar.
I wouldn't be very happy if someone got planning permission for a hotel in my neighborhood, and instead opened a nightclub with
LADIES NIGHT and
SIN NIGHT and
HAPPY HOUR and
REVERSE HAPPY HOUR and a
BIG BASH with
MALIBU GIRLS and oh yeah, rooms.