The Battle for Beverly Hills

The truth about measure H

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[OceanPotato]

HAHAAHHAH ahahha ahaha i went to el rodeo, they were re cunstructing somthing at the hilton and they had cement trucks and etc, their and we still had p.e and time outside, a building wouldnt have done anything,,, beverly hills people make me sick

[nureetco1]

Too bad. We should have gone with this development. At the end, the city of Beverly Hills will lose.

[Mindhead4U]

The old Beverly Wilshire hotel is now a 4 Seasons. Any economic downturn will also affect luxury hotels, not just retail. There is NO other Waldorf-branded hotel outside of NY ("Waldorf Collection" hotels all have different names), so the BH brand is crucial to Hilton's efforts to revitalize the shabby Waldorf brand. There are other luxury hotel brands that would love to come to BH. Just make the project smaller and more BH-like, like the Peninsula, which is very successful without condos.

[cityhallobserver]

The 4 Seasons has in L.A.,not BH. Sales Taxes are down 16% in Sept from one year ago, per the City CFO, that includes 2 Rodeo. Other than the Waldorf in NYC, all of the others are gorgeous resorts. They are doing very well. They can easily build in Century City. There are at least 3 sites available, including one overlooking BHHS that is in L.A. I would rather have a tall condo tower facing SM Blvd and have all the green open space, then the same number of units with fewer garden and open areas.

[wcu]

Drive around our neighborhood.. what do the residents have in their yards?

[away1234567890]

Only after you. The city would be lucky if you did not make it back though.

[Mindhead4U]

The "Waldorf" is only 20% of the new sq footage being planned by the Hilton: the rest is condos. The 18 story tower would be the tallest building in the history of BH. Instead of the 4 Seasons (which did come back to BH eventually), BH got 2 Rodeo, one of the most successful, defining properties in BH. The Doheny project was going to be built anyway (as a Ritz-Carlton). The Hilton corp. says the Waldorf won't be back? It's BS. The fraying Waldorf brand needs BH more than BH needs the Waldorf.

[cityhallobserver]

Mindhead must not live in BH. Three towers on the corners of Wilshire & Beverly Drive are vert close in height to the proposed Waldorf project. The Pres. of Hilton Corp sent a letter stating that the Waldorf is not coming back to BH if Measure H loses -- that is not Alagem - this is the corp. parent. Remember the 4 Seasons. Everyone said they would come back with a smaller project - and they built a larger project in LA on Doheny. We get the traffic, LA gets the $. Vote Yes on Measure H.

[Mindhead4U]

Clearly, if you were negotiating, we would not get a better deal. Thank goodness you are not. And by the way, whether you consider 18 (yes 18, not 16) stories a skyscraper or not, it is 7 stories higher than the current tallest building in BH and that is just too big. You clearly don't think that BH is a brand worth anything, so you might consider moving to a city more worthy of your presence, like Basra or Kabul.

[Mindhead4U]

Such a comment from you can only be considered a compliment.