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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 2389835, member: 405"]
Yes, I've been to the hotel numerous times since it opened.  I do business at the Tech Garden, right across the street, on a regular basis and often lunch at Shaughnessy's when I'm in the neighborhood.  So far, it looks to me like the hotel is still teetering a bit.  I don't see a ton of traffic there.  I wish them great success, but I think they have a lot more marketing to do.

I have heard about his role in the Land Bank, and that has been somewhat successful in rehabilitating housing stock in poor neighborhoods and getting properties back on the tax roles, but a drive through those neighborhoods show just how much more work there is to be done.

As for his "contribution" to the redevelopment of the Inner Harbor, I wouldn't be bragging on that one so much, since Miner and her son-in-laws who work for COR turned that into a real mess, and a series of embarassing court filings.

He comes from a family who has done many good things for the city, but personally, I'm tired of seeing politics as a family business.  It's one of the hallmarks of what holds back this city, in my opinion.  It's all the same people who keep making the same mistakes in their positions in government.  They carry grudges.  They use their positions to mete out payback.

Miner was a disaster.  I am hopeful that Walsh can do better.  It's a low bar that he faces.  Personally, I think someone like Andrew Maxwell was way more qualified to be mayor, but he chose not to run.
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