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Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Drury Inn Needs To Make A D/FW Comeback
Posted 04-01-2016 at 11:34 AM by case44
As vast as the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is, you'd think there'd be room for one more hotel chain. With as many visitors as this area gets each month (heck, each day), the demand would certainly be there.
One hotel chain we used to have in this market is the Drury Inn, which, until about ten or fifteen years ago, had two locations in the Dallas region. Those two facilities have long since been bought out by other hotel chains, but Drury still has hotels in other Texas cities and has done well there. It's a mystery why Drury had even decided to pull out of D/FW, but the chain needs to give this dynamic tourist ground another chance.
Step one is in the works as we speak.
That first step consists of a new Drury Hotel & Suites in Frisco, Texas. Wow. Frisco. How about that? Seems like a logical place to me for that chain to re-enter D/FW in. The new mid-rise is going in at the Dallas North Tollway and Gaylord Parkway. Drury's past prototypes included a high atrium ceiling with high windows and chandeliers. Such will not be the case with the new Frisco location. It will, instead, be Drury's new prototype of structure, which just looks like what most other chains are building.
http://friscoblog.dallasnews.com/fil...ury-frisco.jpg
What I'd like to see with Drury Inn is for them to consider multiple other locations in D/FW. Dallas proper could easily support three of them, including, perhaps, downtown. They could easily build one in Fort Worth, what with all that city's doing around the Trinity River on either side of its downtown, specifically the area near Texas Christian University. What about a new nine-storyer in Richardson's Telecom corridor? Arlington could see one right in their famed entertainment district. And Irving could easily have one near D/FW International Airport (preferably in the Texas State Highway 114 corridor), but they could also do one in Las Colinas.
Drury people, I hope y'all read this. You've got strong hotels in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and even McAllen. Why not start something new in Dallas-Fort Worth? There's no way you could lose.
One hotel chain we used to have in this market is the Drury Inn, which, until about ten or fifteen years ago, had two locations in the Dallas region. Those two facilities have long since been bought out by other hotel chains, but Drury still has hotels in other Texas cities and has done well there. It's a mystery why Drury had even decided to pull out of D/FW, but the chain needs to give this dynamic tourist ground another chance.
Step one is in the works as we speak.
That first step consists of a new Drury Hotel & Suites in Frisco, Texas. Wow. Frisco. How about that? Seems like a logical place to me for that chain to re-enter D/FW in. The new mid-rise is going in at the Dallas North Tollway and Gaylord Parkway. Drury's past prototypes included a high atrium ceiling with high windows and chandeliers. Such will not be the case with the new Frisco location. It will, instead, be Drury's new prototype of structure, which just looks like what most other chains are building.
http://friscoblog.dallasnews.com/fil...ury-frisco.jpg
What I'd like to see with Drury Inn is for them to consider multiple other locations in D/FW. Dallas proper could easily support three of them, including, perhaps, downtown. They could easily build one in Fort Worth, what with all that city's doing around the Trinity River on either side of its downtown, specifically the area near Texas Christian University. What about a new nine-storyer in Richardson's Telecom corridor? Arlington could see one right in their famed entertainment district. And Irving could easily have one near D/FW International Airport (preferably in the Texas State Highway 114 corridor), but they could also do one in Las Colinas.
Drury people, I hope y'all read this. You've got strong hotels in Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and even McAllen. Why not start something new in Dallas-Fort Worth? There's no way you could lose.
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