Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008 | midnight
Hawthorn Suites Golf Resorts expects to redefine its site plan next month for its proposed hotel on the Boulder Creek Golf Club.
The hotel has asked to move its proposed location across Veterans Memorial Drive from the current clubhouse. That request to the City Council has been the second major roadblock in starting construction, President Morgan Burkett said Oct. 22.
After the City Council approved the lease in June 2007, it requested an attorney general's opinion about legality of the lease with the city. The opinion, which came in January, affirmed the contract.
After the site plans are finalized, the company will reset the project schedule, Burkett said, but he wouldn't estimate when construction would start.
Hawthorn Suites and Burkett's other venture, Legacy Hospitality, have 14 active projects.
He said none of his efforts have been delayed "as a result of the calamity in the financial markets," though he remains cautious.
"Certainly we're faced with challenges like everybody else, and we're all kind of holding our breath, but so far all of our projects are still on track."
The 50-year lease with the hotel, which would be built at the municipal Boulder Creek Golf Course, would reportedly earn the city $173,000 annually. The money would be designated to help pay for the fledgling course.
Cassie Tomlin can be reached at 948-2073 or [email protected].
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