California's Tahoe City may be getting its first new hotel in more than 50 years.
According to the Sacramento Business Journal, Kila Tahoe LLC has been working for years to develop the $45 million Tahoe City Lodge, a 118-room boutique hotel. The proposal seeks to establish 78 condo units and 40 permanent hotel rooms on the site of the existing Henrikson building, a two-story retail and office complex on North Lake Blvd.
"It's fair to say we own the ugliest set of buildings in all of Lake Tahoe," Kila Tahoe managing partner Samir Tuma told the Journal.
According to Tuma, condo owners would only be allowed to stay in their units for 90 days out of the year, so that they don't become residential condos.
The hotel, which would signal the first new rooms in Tahoe since 1964, would also provide a boost to the region's environmental conditions by eliminating dirty water runoff into the Truckee River and decreasing the amount of sediment flowing into Lake Tahoe.
What's more, the new building would be energy efficient.
Beyond the sustainable infrastructure, the hotel project would offer incentives to its employees who cycle to work and offer free bike use to its guests.
In addition to cutting down on driving, the hope is that by adding modern hotel rooms in Tahoe, visitors to the area could stay longer and, thus, spend more money.
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Both the hotel project and the Tahoe Basin Area Plan - which aims to improve environmental conditions in Lake Tahoe and focus future development in established areas - were recently approved by Placer County supervisors, per the Journal.
The next step is for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to approve the project. It's next meeting is scheduled for the end of January 2017.
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