Telecom Hotels: Dead Zone?

29 August 2000 - 8:45am

Telecom hotels in downtown Sacramento are turning out to be a mixed blessing.

Who ever thought the day would come when planners were worried about too many hotels in downtown Sacramento? That moment has arrived, but the hotels about which the planners fret are of an exotic sort: not the kind where weary tourists and well-potted conventioneers lay their heads, but "telecom hotels," buildings where telecommunications companies deploy their switches and servers.

Source: The Sacramento Bee, August 29, 2000
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Its very unsuitability for an urban center justifies its current usage as a suburban or ex-urban pattern.