Talk:JW Marriott Downtown Houston

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Reverting edit from October 2016

Here is the paragraph in question after 06:59, 10 October 2016 . . (10,413 bytes) (+188)‎ . . (→‎History):

"In October 2009, the Second National Bank Building sold for $3 million. The purchaser, Pearl Real Estate of Fort Worth, specializes in the development, construction, and operation of hotels. At the time of purchase, forty office tenants were leasing a total 70,000 square feet, and the last of these tenants was scheduled to vacate in February 2010. The office building had 234,398 square feet of rentable space.[8] A Christian Science Reading Room and a Domino's Pizza had been renting ground-level retail space.[5]"

The single change in the text was to replace "204,000 square feet" with "234,398 square feet." The original figure was cited (reference 5) by the Houston Business Journal as the amount of leasable space at the time of sale in October 2009, and compared this figure to the leased space of 70,000 square feet. Most of the space was not producing revenue in its last days as an office building with ground level retail.

The other editor linked here, some kind of real estate site (corrected typo later) which claims the building space was 234,398 square feet in 2016. Perhaps the building space is 234,398. But this edit replaced the leasable space of the building in October 2009, before the building was gutted and renovated. The building has been the JW Marriott Hotel since 2014, thus does not have leasable office space. So the building space does not seem relevant to the article, or at least less so than the number of hotel rooms and the number of dining rooms. So the link added to credifi.com is not relevant and does not seem like a reliable source for Wikipedia.

I am changing the October 2009 square footage back to 204,000 and deleting the link to credifi.com. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 02:00, 5 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]