Job UPDATE: Hotel challenge ‘slowly going ahead,’ according to developer

The pandemic prompted Des Moines developer Jake Christensen to slow down programs to restore assets at 2525 Grand Ave. to its unique use as lodge. Architectural rendering by Slingshot Architecture

What: Renovation of former motor lodge-turned-flats back again to initial use

Where by: 2525 Grand Ave. in Des Moines

Approximated venture price tag: $18.3 million

Developer: Jake Christensen

Architect: Slingshot Architecture

Track record and update: A request to rezone 2525 Grand Ave. in Des Moines to allow for a bar to operate on the property will be held at 5 p.m. Monday by the City Council.

The house consists of a 3-story creating that initially operated as a Howard Johnson motor lodge. The lodge opened at the web-site in 1962 much more than 25 years afterwards, the creating was transformed to residences. Developer Jake Christensen strategies on returning the creating to a resort.

The challenge also includes converting a healthcare making on the house into a bar, which prompted Christensen’s rezoning ask for that was authorised by the city’s Plan and Zoning Fee in May.

Christensen’s progress plans for the house became general public in fall 2019. He had planned to get started restoration of the hotel creating in spring 2020 with completion slated for early 2021. The pandemic, however, slowed these options.

Christensen, in an e-mail to the Small business Report, wrote that the task is “slowly going ahead.” Designs now contain commencing design in the 1st quarter of 2022 with completion in early 2023, he wrote.

Similar posts:

$18.3 million restoration prepared for former Howard Johnson lodge

Proposed Des Moines retro-lodge job mentioned by city board

Resort renovation venture on hold, developer says