Crowne Plaza Hotel closing its doors
Out-of-towners visiting the Texas Medical Center may soon have a more difficult time finding a hotel room.
One of the largest hotels in the area is set to close next month and the loss of rooms has given some patients more to worry about.
The Crowne Plaza will shut its doors in mid-December, taking with it nearly 300 hotel rooms.
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That has Margaret Meyer with the MD Anderson Cancer Center worried because up to 70 percent of the hospital's cancer patients are from out of town or even from other countries.
"It's just going to exacerbate the situation that already exists because rooms are very difficult to come by, given the number of evacuees we still have in our hotels," Meyer said.
The Medical Center already lost a couple hundred rooms over the past couple of months when two nearby hotels closed down.
The Crowne Plaza was one of the hotels that received city of Houston redevelopment funds -- $5 million worth. This story doesn't address whether the city has or will be able to recover that money.
UPDATE: As mwjones points out in the forum, the Crowne Plaza that's closing is a different Crowne Plaza from the one that received city redevelopment money. My apologies for not double-checking that.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 11/15/05 11:29 AM | Print |
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