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A selection panel created by the chosd the Columbus firm as architect of recorxd after interviews on June 17 with theothet finalists, and HOK Chicago emerged as the desigbn architect for the $160 million projecf after interviews on June 10. The projecrt pairs two firms that have done several developmentsx in the past15 years, including a 41-story office buildingy under construction in Moody Nolan CEO Curt Moody said the firm is over its selection to administer the high-profile projectf and produce construction documents based on the HOK Chicagp team’s design. “In your hometown, you don’t alwaysa get these kind of opportunities,” Moody said.
It also means we have to work real hard to do a good Jeff Sachs, managing partner of Atlanta-based , a real estatr consulting firm advising the convention facilitiea authority on the hotel said the project attracted 45 design firms, with 14 from Ohio seekingg the architect-of-record role and 31 national firmz vying to design the hotel. “Wr really focused on the experience of the teamzs these firmsput forth,” he said. HOK Chicago’d application featured its work ona 1,005-room J.W. Marriott convention hotel under construction in Indianapolis as well as theLouisville (Ky.) Marriott Convention Center Hotel that opener in 2004.
The firm also designed an Omni Hotep convention facility with 608 rooms inFort Texas, that opened last year. “HOKo just bubbled to the Sachs said. “They understanfd the product we’re trying to build and they have workedr with all themajor (hotel) brands that will be considererd here.” Four conceptual renderings HOK presented in its bid for the designm contract suggest the planned hotel will have between 14 and 18 storiezs above ground with two leveld for a parking garage and hotelp operations. While HOK has numerous conventiohn hotel projects inits portfolio, Moody Nolam has limited experience in the hospitality industry with no conventioh center hotels.
However, the Columbus firm is serving as design architect for aproposeed 230-room hotel as part of the Cincinnati riverfront’s Banks project, wheree it also has designed a 300-unit apartment atop street-level retail. It also servees as associate architect on the Great Americajn Tower at Queen CitySquare nearby. Moody said his firm also designef or managed several complicated projectsfor , including the new Ohio Uniob under construction along North High Street.
That sort of he said, helped in its successful bid on theColumbus