There is a huge building project smack dab in the downtown area of Lancaster City. The Lancaster Convention Center / Mariott at Penn Square will be the biggest building in town. The neat part about this hotel is that they kept the 100 year old facade of the original building, the Watt and Shand store. The project is scheduled to be complete in Spring of 2009.
The new hotel / convention center has 21 feet high ceilings in the lobby, a restaurant that seats 110, a pool and fitness center, and the Commonwealth Ballroom (9100 square feet). There are also several rooms that can be combined to create a 46,000 square foot room, perfect for any function. The picture on the right is what it will look like when finished.
The Mariott at Penn Square has been a controversial project from the beginning. Some people say it won't get enough bookings to be profitable, some local hotels were upset about the competition. One comment I read on the newspaper site was a local business owner that was upset about no additional public restrooms. They want the city to add public restrooms so that tourists won't have to swarm the downtown restaurants just to use the bathrooms. When this issue was brought up at a town meeting the mayor said he would look into it.
Whatever your opinion, here is a video from Lancaster Online where you get to see behind the scenes of the building project. You can also take a virtual tour of the finished product on the Lancaster Convention Center Website.
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