Year: 2012

The business plan for the hotel/conference center is still being withheld.  And it is not yet on the Regents website for the upcoming March meeting.  But with the story on the front page, surely the Regents now know that something is coming.  Excerpts from story are below: Westwood Innkeepers See No Room for UCLA Hotel By Jacquelyn Ryan, 3-12-12, LA Business Journal (excerpts) A proposed UCLA hotel and conference center – newly scaled down and moved to satisfy upset faculty and neighbors – is finally heading to the UC Regents this month for review.  But even if the $152 million…

Time is a complicated thing to understand.  For example, today in the LA Times today you will read that:Daylight saving time began at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, meaning the clocks “spring forward” one hour. The change will mean that there will be more hours of daylight…  (italics added) http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/03/daylight-savings-time-today-.html And just as the LA Times seems to be chronologically (and astronomically) challenged, so, too, does whoever is hanging on to the top secret business plan for the hotel/conference center.   To get the plan before the Regents meeting in late March, it will have to be released this coming week. The…

The revised business plan for the proposed UCLA hotel/conference center – now to replace parking structure #6 – is reportedly due to be unveiled to the Regents at their meeting in late March.  The deadline for getting the report on the agenda for that meeting is fast approaching.  Campus Academic Senate review is also needed. And requests have been filed by the Faculty Association and others for a copy of the plan.So far, no plan has been released.  But you can hear it calling out from Murphy Hall: