No Funding Found to Preserve Historic Downtown Hotel
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After a futile search for grants and outside funding, city leaders may abandon efforts to save the historic Brea Hotel.
“The search for grants and foundation funding did not turn up anything,” Mayor Lynn Daucher said, “so there will probably be [another] use of that block.”
City staff members will report to the City Council in 30 days, Daucher said, with alternate recommendations for the 1.2-acre parcel at Brea Boulevard and Ash Street.
The 1910 hotel was to be the centerpiece of a historic district preserving part of the old downtown. The city is creating a new downtown in a massive $100-million redevelopment project.
The city has already spent $1.3 million on the historic district project, and the lowest development bids were asking the city to spend another $1.2 million, Daucher said.
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