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Layton Bulcao, 83, received his mail-in ballot Thursday for the Feb. 28 special election on whether developers of the planned Ambassador Hotel should get to tap into the city’s bed tax to help build the $22.5 million project in downtown Wichita.
The upcoming vote on a $2.25 million public incentive for the Ambassador Hotel at Douglas and Broadway is a referendum on the future of downtown redevelopment, the hotel’s backers say.
Here are answers to some of the key questions about the Feb. 28 guest tax vote on the Ambassador Hotel Wichita, a 117-room boutique hotel proposed for the old Union National Bank building, Douglas and Broadway, which was the site of the Dockum Drugs store sit-in in 1958. The rooms are projected to cost an average of $150 a night.
Nine of the 28 Wichitans who went to the polls Feb. 28 to vote on the Ambassador Hotel referendum but didn’t have the required photo identification have since provided a copy of their ID and had their ballots count.
