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Article Excerpt
Aside from providing conventioneers with another choice on where to hang their hats, the long-awaited $348 million Hilton San Diego Convention Center Hotel is being billed as "a true urban resort" by John Portman & Associates of Atlanta, the architectural arm of its co-developer, Portman Holdings.
If that term sounds like an oxymoron, it really isn't, said Sal Ochoa, an architect and assistant real estate manager for the San Diego Unified Port District.
The new 30-story, 1,190-room Hilton will look like a resort next to a park, with plazas and palm trees, he said.
"If you drive Downtown, you see hotels designed in the urban fabric. They butt right up against the curb. There's no green space. People are dropped off at the curb and there's the hotel, right in front of them," he said.
"The Hilton, on the other hand, won't have the feel of a...
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