Marriott to be three-star hotel

The hotel will be a 3-star/diamond hotel. Backers will purposely use terms such as "first-class" and "business-class" as a diversion. Remember, this project was sold, by them at their choosing, as a four-star hotel to be different.

As the only four-star property of significant size in the marketplace this "private" hotel was to be different and the other hotels were supposed to embrace it in that regard. As soon as the tax was passed, the language changed.

The reality is that there was never any intention to build (from a facilities standpoint) or operate (from a services standpoint) a four-star property...anyone with even the most basic knowledge of the business knew that this was far from economic reality.

Since this property will now have the same rating as all newly built properties within the county, they will use terms like I mentioned before in an attempt to differentiate themselves.