The Tucson City Council just voted unanimously to kill a $190 million downtown convention hotel next to the Tucson Convention Center.
The crowd cheered after the council took the groundbreaking vote.
Council members said building the hotel didn’t make sense and that they weren’t willing to put the city taxpayer money at risk. Only Mayor Bob Walkup proposed something other than killing the hotel. He tried to delay killing the hotel to give the negotiation process more time, then tried to get the council to vote on a Plan B of what to do next, which it rejected.
City taxpayers have to back the bonds in order for the hotel to be constructed.
About 500 people turned out for the are attending the hearing at the TCC over whether to build 525-room Sheraton hotel next to the TCC.
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Opponents and supporters of the hotel got about equal cheers from the crowd, although opponents may be a tad louder.
About 80 percent of the speakers were against the hotel, while 20 percent supported its construction. There were about 30 speakers in all.
