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Hotel & More Apartments Planned for Downtown Moline

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The 5th Avenue Building in downtown Moline - a future hotel ?
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the Chase Bank Building in downtown Moline

Plans are being made to build more apartments and a new hotel in downtown Moline. Tuesday night the city council will be asked to approve several projects.

Planning and Development Director, Ray Forsythe, says one proposal would convert the upper floors of the Chase Bank Building into 31 apartments, while another would convert the Fifth Avenue Building into what he calls a "high end, full service hotel."

Both projects are in Moline's new downtown tax increment financing (tif) district.
The Chase Building conversion is project of the Amin Group and Russell Construction, while Heart of America is planning the new, 105 room hotel.

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the Spiegel Warehouse building next to the I-74 Bridge

Also on the agenda is a request by city staff to negotiate a purchase agreement with Gorman and Company to buy and re-develop the Spiegel Building next to the I-74 bridge.

Forsythe says Gorman plans to convert it into 28 apartments and some commercial space.  

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.