Group Blog
Members: Rob, Jessica, Shawn, and Annette
Today, we toured the buildings that each group will be rehabilitating. Our building, the Imperial Hotel, has three stories. The bottom story is currently used for retail. The upper stories have been deserted for many years, but will be returned to a hotel. Our biggest design problem at the moment is the entry to the hotel. We hope that our client will be willing to give up the rented, retail space on the first floor for a lobby and grand staircase. The owner has another building adjacent to the Imperial Hotel. It resides in an alleyway that would be very profitable to the hotel, but we are not sure if our owner would be willing to move the small building away from the site. We will have several different designs to show our client during the meeting on Thursday.
