Previously I pointed out how Wyndham Hotel Group would not be an investor in Kern and Kaplan's taxpayer funded project despite what the News & Record would have you believe with their finely worded articles meant to deceive.
Way back in August I pointed out the water and sewer issues the downtown construction will cause that no one wants to talk about:
"You see, Greensboro isn't New York City with giant sewers big enough for homeless communities to camp in and alligators to breed, nor are we Atlanta with a new wastewater system costing $Billions upon $Billion. Nope, Greensboro is a city whose downtown already has a less than adequate sewer system that dates back almost 100 years. "
But back to the downtown Wyndham Hotel study.
When we got our hands on the hotel study, Amanda Lehmert of the News & Record, let it be known to George Hartzman, Roch Smith Jr and I that a computer program called the IMPLAN Analysis Tool had been used by the City of Greensboro to provide the results published in the downtown Wyndham Hotel Study and knowing that Kern and Kaplan had faked their 2010 downtown hotel proposal we thought it time to check to see if they were faking their 2013 proposal as well. So on December 9 I sent the following questions to the City of Greensboro:
"What data was used in this study?
Was the IMPLAN data customized? If so, how? Why?
What assumptions are behind this study? (i.e. What values did you enter into the IMPLAN system, Why those numbers?)
How many assumptions were made for this study? Is this enough information to create a thorough study?
Has anyone done a similar study with different results? If so, what assumptions were behind that study? How do these assumptions differ?"
All those questions are recommended to be asked by the makers of the IMPLAN Analysis Tool.
Requested December 9th. It's now December 26th at 5:00 AM and to date I have received no answers. One can only assume this latest study, like the first, is a fake.
As further evidence, might I add the contents of an e-mail that Amanda Lemhert, Jeff Gauger, Allen Johnson, Doug Clark, myself and others all received from from George Hartsman on December 11th:
"Some of the assumptions that went into the 29.3 million.
I spoke to the fellow who did the "analysis" a few minutes ago.Deer in the headlights conversation.Sounds like he took the expectation of jobs created provided by Kaplan and crew and extrapolated 29.3 million out without any expectation of percentage of occupancy included.The Urban Hotel Group had all the breakdowns of per room per night etc...I would say the "analysis" took less than an hour to complete.crap in, crap out, just like congressional CBO studies.g"
I know the name of the "fellow" who did the study on behalf of the City of Greensboro.
