{"id":14899,"date":"2016-08-02T20:14:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=14899"},"modified":"2016-08-02T20:14:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T00:14:21","slug":"chance-of-having-a-hotel-decision-by-the-end-of-the-year-on-a-scale-of-1-10-a-seven-says-cao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/chance-of-having-a-hotel-decision-by-the-end-of-the-year-on-a-scale-of-1-10-a-seven-says-cao\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance of having a hotel decision by the end of the year on a scale of 1-10? A seven, says CAO"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

On a scale of 1 to 10, how likely is there to be movement on the hotel front as far as Aurora is concerned?<\/p>\n

An optimistic seven, according to Aurora CAO Doug Nadorozny.<\/p>\n

According to Mr. Nadorozny there are \u201ctwo or three\u201d hotel developers that would sit comfortably on the seven marker \u201cin terms of doing something before the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

His comments came after members of a working group convened by the Town\u2019s Economic Development Advisory Committee (EDAC) and the Aurora Chamber of Commerce, came together to discuss the next steps in their efforts to recruit a hotel developer to break ground in Aurora and get more \u201cmeat\u201d from the Town on where things currently stand.<\/p>\n

At outset, staff said they were seeing \u201cmomentum\u201d on the hotel front but Mr. Nadorozny said the decision made by Regional Council in June to \u201csolve the development charge issue,\u201d an issue that has repeatedly been cited as a significant barrier to bringing new hotels to York Region, was a \u201cformal way to telegraph to the community\u201d their intentions to fix the issue.<\/p>\n

But, for Javed Khan, Chair of the Aurora Chamber of Commerce, that was nothing they hadn\u2019t heard before. <\/p>\n

\u201cI thought [the answer] would be meatier and give us some sort of opening of the curtain to what is going on back there of what is happening,\u201d said Mr. Khan of talks between the municipality and hotel developers. \u201cI always say out of a scale of one to 10, what is the possibility from today to December 31, out of a scale of one to 10, that we will have an announcement from the Town of Aurora saying we got something?\u201d<\/p>\n

Anything at this point would be \u201cspeculative\u201d said Mr. Nadorozny before stepping up to put some meat on the bones. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey are past the feasibility, they are past the room rate, the vacancies, and they are pretty happy they have a market here, but they just can\u2019t make the spreadsheet work because of the development charge issue, so we have been working on trying to reassure them that there will be a solution in place,\u201d said the CAO. \u201cThe Region has been very helpful in that regard.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat takes the list from 15 that have contacted us down to about four or five that are at that level of analysis and trying to figure out if they can live with the development charge regime that exists. There has been land that is optioned and traded with intentions or comments around a hotel, but we have no building permits, we have no site plans, we have nothing that is that concrete that we\u2019re sitting here saying, \u2018There is about to be a ribbon cutting\u2019 and we\u2019re holding that back. There is nothing that is that far along.\u201d<\/p>\n

Going a step further to say there are \u201ctwo or three\u201d he would put as a seven in terms of \u201cdoing something\u201d by year\u2019s end, he cautioned the reality could be closer to an eight or a five, but they are serious. He cautioned, however, that the reality might be there is only room for one hotel in this market and all want to be \u201cthe first one in.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t be putting anything out there that raises the urgency for Number Two to say, \u2018Uh-oh, I think something is going on according to what the Town is doing, so we\u2019re going to jump in now,\u2019\u201d said Mr. Nadorozny about being \u201cguarded\u201d in doing something that would influence a decision.
\nMembers of the committee, however, didn\u2019t seem to think raising the urgency was necessarily a bad thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is certainly interest and there are lots of people exploring the opportunity but it is not clear what the final opportunity will be,\u201d said Councillor Thompson. \u201cThat is the opportunity for this group and others to help influence that decision by developing those metrics, the data, by generating that interest perhaps at the appropriate stage and you can show that value and they may alter their decision-making process to say there is reason for us to take this path versus that path.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know there is a wide range and scope when it comes to hotels, and I think the efforts of this committee and others hopefully will have some impact on their final decision on which is the best investment for them but also, at the same time, we\u2019re trying to say here is what the Town really needs and we would really like it if you work with us and achieve that \u2013 especially if Council is faced with multiple choices.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Mr. Nadorozny there are \u201ctwo or three\u201d hotel developers that would sit comfortably on the seven marker \u201cin terms of doing something before the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3Sj","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-31 23:03:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}