“If this submission is passed by the Zoning Commission, no one would be happier than me. (But) if it is not, we are moving on with the extended-stay hotel scenario,” said Dan Bertram, referring to the 10-story former Crowne Plaza hotel he bought out of bankruptcy on the city’s west side.
“We can do something really, really cool as opposed to something that's just cash flow,” Bertram said on Monday. “There are very, very big differences between the two, and the city gets to choose.”
Bertram’s decision to revise two provisions of his rezoning request and apply for a second time for permission to build housing in a commercial district means the vision is intact to convert the 1979 hotel near Interstate 84's Exit 2 into 198 affordable apartments, with three floors of maker space for startups and entrepreneurs.
