 It looks like the downtown hotel and conference center planned for the city of Frederick could be moving along a little quicker. The Board of Aldermen were presented with an update on the project during their Wednesday workshop. Pete Pomondon is a principal with a company which plans to construct the facility in the area of South Carroll Street. We started pre-development costs. We're in for a site plan approval come this August. So we've started the process with our engineers and architects to do that.