If Oklahoma City wants to get serious about the convention & hotel business, we are definitely going to need a large hotel in the neighborhood of 800 - 1,000 rooms. This would allow us to attract much bigger conventions and house them in one structure.

Fifty million would be chicken feed of an investment--a hotel exceeding 800 rooms would definitely make OKC more attractive since we are equal-distant from the east coast to the west cost and smack in the middle of the U.S.A.

If our mayor wants to blow $30 million on moving an OG&E substation; then, why not invest $50 million in incentives on attracting a 30 to 40-story hotel and really go after some first class conventions.