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Source: The Monitor, McAllen, TexasSept.迷你倉出租 05--MCALLEN -- The City Commission recently rekindled discussions about building an Embassy Suites near the Convention Center, about six months after the hotel deal collapsed.Long-running negotiations -- then-Mayor Richard Cortez inked the original Embassy Suites agreement on Dec. 27, 2007 -- between the Commission and McAllen Skyline Ltd. stalled during early January, when disagreements over city incentives, including property tax breaks, hotel tax rebates and a land deal proved intractable.Not long afterward, City Commissioner Scott Crane said McAllen might take another look at the Embassy Suites project and casually mentioned that possibility to the development company."We have been contacted several times in the past month, both directly and indirectly, about attempting to resume talks with the city about our building an Embassy Suites hotel at the Convention Center," said developer Larry Fallek, writing to Mayor Jim Darling on June 26. "I do not know if we could ever reach a workable arrangement with the city over such a large and expensive project such as this; but without ever being given the opportunity in the past to discuss it directly with the mayor or Commission, we cannot attempt to offer a迷你倉y suggestions on how to resume discussions."The Monitor obtained the email from Larry Fallek to Darling through a public information request.Both Crane and Michael Fallek, a partner at Boulevard Development, confirmed the preliminary talks, but emphasized they haven't progressed to actual negotiations.The Commission apparently started discussing the Embassy Suites project again under the code name "Project Magnet." Records from the McAllen Development Corp. list Project Magnet among the city's newest economic development projects with the notation: "Larry Falleck (sic) request for resume talks on Embassy Suites."All four regularly scheduled Commission meetings during July and August included Project Magnet on the executive session agenda.McAllen opened the $62.2 million Convention Center hoping major trade and industry conventions -- along with business travelers ready to spend money -- would visit the Rio Grande Valley. Without an adjacent hotel, though, the Convention Center struggles to attract major meetings and McAllen subsidizes the operation with hotel taxes.dhendricks@themonitor.comCopyright: ___ (c)2013 The Monitor (McAllen, Texas) Visit The Monitor (McAllen, Texas) at .themonitor.com Distributed by MCT Information Services儲存倉