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The long-planned Foss Waterway hotel is back again at the Thea Foss Waterway Development Authority asking for yet another extension of its planned ground-breaking date.
The hotel project on the near-downtown Tacoma Thea Foss Waterway has been repeatedly postponed over the last four years as its Seattle developers have redesigned to suit market and financing condition changes.
Previous Foss hotel design with condos
The original hotel developer dropped out early, and the owner of Seattle's Inn at the Market, Bob Thurston, stepped in to take over the project.
His initial design called for a boutique hotel and restaurants. Somewhere along the way he changed to design to incorporate two dozen condominiums atop the hotel structure. The condos were added to make the deal more bankable.
When the condo market imploded, he went back to the drawing board and eliminated all but six of the condos and increased the number of hotel rooms.
Now he's out looking for financing. He owns the hotel site between the Esplanade condos and Thea's Landing, but is under an obligation to the Foss authority to develop the site.
I'm sure Thurston, who wasn't involved in the original contest to see who would be allowed to develop the land which the authority owned, must be tired of our pointing out the irony of the situation.
But here goes again. Two developers, Nearon from California and Williams and Dame from Portland, originally bid to do the project. Nearon won largely by pledging to build not only condos, but a nice hotel. Williams and Dame told the authority that the hotel was a marginal possibility and was rejected.
