Downtown Fargo Hotel Owners See Opportunities

The owners of the Howard Johnson Inn in Downtown Fargo may be considering development to enhance the hotel if the property is bought out to make room for a permanent flood wall and realignment of Second Street North.

 

 

 

 

The owners of the Howard Johnson Inn in Downtown Fargo may be considering development to enhance the hotel if the property is bought out to make room for a permanent flood wall and realignment of Second Street North.

City Commissioner Mike Williams has discussed the situation with the property owners. He says the property has a large enough footprint that the hotel could be be built up further west, adding several stories, underground parking and some retail space on the street level.

Williams says most of 400 spaces in the Civic Center parking lot east of City Hall would also be lost if the flood wall is built and Second Street is shifted further west. But he says new parking sites proposed for downtown would pick up the slack. The City has applied for a federal grant that would cover 75% of the $24 million floodwall. An answer to the request is expected in March.

(Second Street North Clay Dike Construction, 2009 flood-KFGO News File Photo)

 

Don Haney

   

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