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  • "The hotel developer is from McAllen and owns 17 hotels. He was going to build in McAllen, but Caterpillar whetted his appetite for Victoria," Armstrong said.

    I thought the original article stated the 'Victoria Affiliates' was the group developing the hotel. Does the developer from McAllen call his development group Victoria Affiliates? Something seems a little off.

    And he was going to build the hotel in McAllen instead of Victoria--the place where you can't find a room and there's an oil boom right up the road? Sure he was. How does the saying go? I've got some ocean front property in Arizona?

    October 9, 2011 at 8:42 p.m.