City Council members voted to approve the three-year extension that developer Dave Parmley requested to build the second tower for downtown hotel The Broadway Columbia. The new deadline to finish the tower is December 31, 2024.

Mayor Brian Treece and Second Ward Councilwoman Andrea Waner voted against the extension. Treece, who opposed the project in 2017, expressed concerns over the project’s use of public subsidies and made a failed motion to send it to the Tax Increment Financing Commission, saying the “ground has shifted” since 2017.

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