Results tagged “hyattregency”

So here's something interesting for people who keep track of abandoned downtown buildings: The Houston Business Journal reports that Omni Hotels has plans to revamp the old Sheraton-Lincoln into a luxury suite hotel. The 28-story hotel at 717 Polk Ave. opened in 1962 and closed in 1986; according to the folks at the Houston Architecture Forum, the nearby Hyatt Regency bought the building in the late 1990s for a proposed expansion, but that deal fell...

You might have heard about the GoogleCenter of the universe, which Wired reported on Wednesday — that's the spot you find if you zoom as close as you can on the default Google map. Turns out it's a field near Coffeyville, Kansas. Naturally, the -ists jumped on the bandwagon by finding the GoogleCenters of their hometowns: Gothamist did it first, and then Bostonist, Chicagoist, DCist and Seattlest followed suit. So Houstonist is a little...