Kenosha----We may soon learn more about the new owner of the city's only downtown hotel.
The Best Western Harborside Inn is in the process of being sold.
At the regularly-scheduled meeting of the City Council Monday night, aldermen are expected to act on a proposal to transfer control of city-owned land that’s adjacent to the hotel to the new owner, K-A-S Real Estate Holdings.
The company has a Chicago address. Its agent is identified as Rajiv Singh.
The deal that'll go before the council is similar to what the current owner has.
That owner has been in hot water frequently with city officials over a variety of primarily building code issues. But Syed Bokhari also lost the hotel’s liquor license after local officials learned he was facing a variety of federal charges in Massachusetts for his role in a tax evasion scheme that involved tobacco.
Also Monday night, aldermen are expected to approve Mayor Antaramian’s request to borrow federal funds to help finance the cost of building a new fire station at 52nd Street and 22nd Avenue. The old Bain Elementary School would be torn down to make way for the project. Two existing fire houses would close, with equipment and personnel consolidated at the new location. The federal funds would be paid back over a 20-year period using the city’s allocation of federal Community Development Block Grant funds.
And the City Council is expected to consider a settlement between the city and Rasch Construction, the contractor that rebuilt Kenosha’s bike track. Last May’s scheduled reopening was delayed after cracks in the new surface were discovered, along with a settling of sub-surface base material. The deal calls for a small portion of the track to be rebuilt, and has the city forking over another $25,0000 to help defray the additional cost.
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