How Big is a 250-Room Hotel? Ask a Duck
Above is the “Radisson at USC” which has 240 rooms. It is right across from the USC campus on Figueroa. It isn’t shy about calling itself a “hotel,” even though it has ten fewer rooms than the proposed facility at UCLA which the administration insists is not really a hotel but rather a “residential conference center” and sometimes just a “conference center.” And yes, the Radisson at USC has conference rooms including a 7,000 square foot ballroom. Do we really need to pretend about what UCLA’s proposed facility is? There is a saying about such pretense…
UPDATE: There will be a public hearing on the latest Environmental Impact Report on the hotel on June 5, 2012, 7 PM, at the UCLA Faculty Center. In the official announcement below, the hotel is called a “Conference and Guest Center.”