‘There’s big hope’: Topeka’s Walmart Distribution Center construction helping struggling hotels

The construction of a new Walmart Distribution Center is one of very few things keeping Topeka hotels together. From fewer cars in the parking lot, to fewer people in the lobby and fewer guests filling the rooms, Topeka hotels are taking a hard hit due to the coronavirus pandemic. “At the beginning, the occupancy was, of course, we were low, low occupancy,” said Farid Elias, general manager of the Hilton Garden Inn Topeka. “People were scared. They didn’t know what’s going on with the virus, how they can avoid it.”
Source: KSNT News