Casa Blanca Motor Lodge to be demolished, recycled
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This article was published 23/11/2019 (2322 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A local hotel with a checkered past will soon find a new life as recycled building materials.
The Casa Blanca Motor Lodge at 2728 Victoria Ave. was, among other things, the site of the arrest of a Colorado man that had kidnapped his son and fled to Canada in 2013.
In 2017, the site was purchased by Jacobson Commercial of the J&G Group of Companies and not much has happened to the site since.
Instead of demolishing the entire building and sending the rubble to the landfill, the company is partnering with the Community Health and Housing Association to have them salvage what they can for their Building Re-Fit Store at 23 12th St.
Erin Coleman of the CHHA said they heard the building was to be torn down and reached out to J&G to see if they would be interested in working out an arrangement to salvage what they could.
The Building Re-Fit Store supplies the community with affordable building materials while offering employment and job training to disadvantaged individuals.
While some work was done this past Tuesday, the bulk of the deconstruction will be happening next week.
A spokesperson for J&G CEO Jared Jacobson told the Sun the company is working through the final preliminary design stages for the development of the property after the hotel has been torn down.
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