First National Center

[reginajet]

Umm... I wonder if someone just threw this up as parody. Or if it's been hacked. Be sure and take a look at the About, Bios, and the page on the Ft. Lauderdale hotel.

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[GoThunder]

Umm... I wonder if someone just threw this up as parody. Or if it's been hacked. Be sure and take a look at the About, Bios, and the page on the Ft. Lauderdale hotel.

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Wow, the page on the Ft. Lauderdale hotel sounds like someone is very ticked about it.

[Pete]

This is the list of projects shown on that site:



Project Name
Description
Role

W Hotel, Fort Lauderdale
Hotel condos
Due diligence, loan placement (construction)

Mandarin Hotel, Grand Caymans
Hotel condos-development
Loan placement and investment

W Hotel, Park City
Hotel condos-development
Acquisition and development management

Choice Hotels, Cambria
Program debt/equity; program for development
Financial advisory and investment

Choice Hotels, Suburban
Program debt/equity
Financial advisory and investment

Value Place/Quanah Development
Equity raise for 27 locations
Financial advisory and investment

Starwood Hotels Prototype
Program debt/equity
Financial advisory

Fairmont Acapulco Princess
Hotel sale-management
Financial advisory

JW Marriott, Coco Beach
Resort hotel and villas-development
Financial advisor, investment and development manager

St. Regis, San Francisco
Hotel and residential condos
Financial advisory

St. Regis, Fort Lauderdale
Resort hotel and fractionals
Loan placement (construction), development management

Ritz Carlton, Miami Beach
Resort hotel developmen
Investment

Atlantic City Sheraton
Convention hotel
Financial analysis/debt underwriting

JW Marriott, Star Pass
Resort hotel development
Assisted in engaging outside consultants, created financial projects and lender presentation package

Syracuse Renaissance
Hotel
Acquisition

LeMeridien, Cleveand
Hotel
Acquisition and development management

A/P Springhill Suites, Newark
Extended stay hotel
Acquisition

Holiday Inn, St. Louis
Hotel
Acquisition

Sheraton, Ft. Myers
Hotel
Public/private partnership, development

[Just the facts]

Umm... I wonder if someone just threw this up as parody. Or if it's been hacked. Be sure and take a look at the About, Bios, and the page on the Ft. Lauderdale hotel.

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Lol.

[zookeeper]

The website has been taken down. Something's not quite right about this.

[mattjank]

[QUOTE=p.s. I saw the NewsOK video proudly proclaiming "I know the identity of the FNC's Cali buyer and I just talked to him" - while all good and well, I was left wondering why if this guy has been working very quietly behind the scenes with the Historical Preservation Society and others since 2013 is it just now getting out? Again, perhaps it's more about the landscape in which papers now exist, more comfortable with re-writing press releases as opposed to working sources and documents to get real facts and substance? Sorry to keep bagging on the local paper's coverage, just think we as readers/consumers and the FNC as topic deserve much better than what we've gotten so far.......[/QUOTE]

Or what about talking to the party that filed suit to get actual information from both sides, not just taking the word of the party being sued. Seems to be the exact same style of dealing with teemco.

I understand not wanting to burn bridges with the developer, but there's always 2 sides to a story. And where there's smoke, more often than not, there's fire.

[Pete]

The website has been taken down. Something's not quite right about this.

Before it was deactivated it said the company was formed in 2014 and has over a $1 billion in projects underway.

This whole thing is weird.


I'd really like to know what type of preliminary understanding they have with the Alliance for TIF and other incentives.

I'm sure a deal has not been struck, but I"m also sure this developer would not be moving forward without at least a general understanding of various incentives.

[zookeeper]

Lol.

So, I'm curious now, what was on the page about the Fort Lauderdale Regis?

[bchris02]

If this developer ends up not pulling through, does the city of OKC have any options?

[GoThunder]

So, I'm curious now, what was on the page about the Fort Lauderdale Regis?

"I remember this project very well. We were so excited because this was going to be our first project with the W hotel chain. The ideas that were being floated around, for that time, were just simply out of this world. It was like, "Are you f-----g crazy! Who's going to stay at this hotel and pay the kind of money you wanna charge?" It was outrageous. I thought everybody had to be on LSD to be thinking like this.

But we did it. The hotel was a great success, and it helped to solidify the image of the W hotel chain as the hippest place to stay when you have to travel. The international traveler loved the concept. Gawd, we made millions..

Joe Blow, director of concepts"

[Just the facts]

The photo on the About page was pretty good also. 3 guys flexing their muscles in a small bathroom - one had an eye patch.

Clearly their site was hacked.

[zookeeper]

The photo on the About page was pretty good also. 3 guys flexing their muscles in a small bathroom - one had an eye patch.

Clearly their site was hacked.

They must have some serious enemies. According to WayBack Machine, there has never been too much to see.

[soonerguru]

Just spoke with the Golden Dragon operator. They have 60 days from July 22nd. He has been actively looking for a new space but hasn't found anything yet. He seemed pretty bummed, i felt bad for the guy. He contemplated retiring but says he will find somewhere else to operate.

He has a question about his lease, his lease runs for another year. Does the sale basically eliminate the lease obligation from the owners? He made it seem as if he already paid up for the next year and wanted to make sure he got his money back if they cut the lease short.

He also mentioned that Cafe 7 had already picked a new place to go. I asked him a couple times but couldn't understand what he was saying so i just left it alone. Anyone know anything about that?

This makes me sad. I love that guy and his wife. They have been important fixtures in that building for at least 20 years.

[soonerguru]

Steve has canceled his chat for tomorrow. Why?

[ljbab728]

Steve has canceled his chat for tomorrow. Why?

Just what does that have to do with this thread? The conspiracy theories here are getting silly.

[bchris02]

Just what does that have to do with this thread? The conspiracy theories here are getting silly.

Look at Steve's twitter. He is skipping the chat because he is unable to answer the big questions about First National Center.

[Teo9969]

Just what does that have to do with this thread? The conspiracy theories here are getting silly.

I think everyone here hopes that turns out to be the case.

[Plutonic Panda]

Just what does that have to do with this thread? The conspiracy theories here are getting silly.

It's real brother. They have signeded on with a Chinese henchman to install doorknobs on houses occupied by the likes Taylor Swift, Bernie Sanders, Bob Marley, and perhaps a reincarnated Joespeh Stalin. I'm alive and ride I will.

- Retiny

[Dustin]

Just what does that have to do with this thread? The conspiracy theories here are getting silly.

The FNC is literally why he isn't doing the chat. Seriously.

[Jim Kyle]

Umm... I wonder if someone just threw this up as parody. Or if it's been hacked. Be sure and take a look at the About, Bios, and the page on the Ft. Lauderdale hotel.

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And now the site is unavailable...

[David]

The FNC is literally why he isn't doing the chat. Seriously.

Yep.

Skipping OKC Central Live Chat as I dig more into the pending sale of First National Center.

[ljbab728]

Yep.

OK, that wasn't said in the first mention about it being cancelled and I don't follow his twitter so I didn't see it.

[jn1780]

Look at Steve's twitter. He is skipping the chat because he is unable to answer the big questions about First National Center.

I wouldn't exactly put it that way. Could be he is just busy following leads to do a live chat. Getting good information for his NewsOK articles is more important than the live chats that really only a small segment of the population actually reads and takes part in.

[Urbanized]

Good grief, could we just start a "bash on the Oklahoman" thread, a "bash on Brianna" thread and a "bash on Steve" thread and keep such posts in there? It seems like every thread on this board these days devolves into a referendum on their respective coverage. It is getting tiring.

I'm not even making this post to defend their coverage; I'm just saying that I don't want to read a play-by-play on it in EVERY. SINGLE. THREAD.

[UnFrSaKn]

^^^