I thought when our City Council was elected the cost of twinning was said to be too expensive. They just don't get the message.

I think if they are going to twin with a city in China, they should do so with another city that has a population of around 100,000. Jiangmen has a population of around 3 million, I believe and is growing by leaps and bounds. I would assume that its issues are totally different from PG.

What exactly can they learn from us and we from them?

Is there a real proposal for such a hotel? This seems to have been going on for some time. Another potentially relatively large hotel outside the downtown core. Not a good sign for downtown.

Remember that our Mayor once told us about a vision he had for our City. Was that dream go West young man go West?

Prince George has always had an oversupply of hotel/motel accommodation. Another hotel give me a break.. Sounds like a MYPG plan.
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Retired, I don't know where you got your info on over supply, but I have always understood it to be under supplied to the population base.

The problem, is there are a bunch of sleeze rooms out there which will become harder to rent when newer ones are built.

Speaking of Hotel rooms, The Sandman Inn, what a joke to get that built. Its close to 4 years they have been working on it. 1500 years ago they built the Hagia Sophia in Constanople in five years, out of stone. Do these guys even have any idea on how to build a hotel? What a joke, an apprentice can finish his entire program on one of these jobs. Way to go Sandman, obviously your superintendent is a sleeping sandman.

The story is that the Sandman is being built by their own forces.

Going that slow does not leave a good impression in the community. Even a sign on the building explaining what they are doing might help in the community relations area.

Ties up money for a long time without a return on investment.

However, it is their project and they obviously know how they want to build and finance whether we think it is right or wrong.

The Hagia Sophia was built using standard Roman construction techniques - out of brick and concrete. A marble cladding was added as a veneer.

Unlike Gothic Cathedrals of several hundred years later, Hagia Sophia was not built out of stone.

The building was supposedly built with a workforce of 10,000.

City RED TAPE people.

Hizzoner and a couple of same visioned buddies going to China, eh? Betcha CSIS might have their eyes on them. Or so I understand.

Hope this hotel gets built faster than that (not there) sporting goods store besides Shoppers on O'Grady Road and a little bit slower than that Visions store across the street from Boston Pizza. Maybe city hall will annoy them so much that they abandon their hotel investment. I will wait.