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2007 » Issue September 19 » EditorialHotel idea: Dead or in temporary coma?After years of negotiations and delays, the end has come for the current downtown hotel plans led by developer Roxy Rapp and a group of investors. Rapp was actually the second developer to tackle the proposition, the first being initiated in the mid-1990s by Norm Rosenblatt, owner of the Garden Court Hotel in Palo Alto. Rosenblatt’s efforts were stonewalled by city officials until he eventually pulled out. Now Rapp’s group has pulled out of plans to lease or buy city-owned land at the corner of First and Main streets and build an 85-room Apricot Inn. The money wasn’t there to make the project a reality. The return of a mom-and-pop?Among the items scheduled on the agenda at the Oct. 4 Los Altos Planning Commission meeting is a use permit application to reopen the small store, known for many years as Foodland, on Los Altos Avenue after months of dormancy. The fact that this is a retail store in the middle of a residential neighborhood is bound to give some neighbors the usual concerns about parking, noise and traffic. But the location has operated as a grocery store since 1940 without major incident. |
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Leo Long earns local honorsIn the April 30 issue of the Town Crier, you were right to congratulate and thank Dick Henning from Foothill College for four decades of service to the community. I met him at Foothill as student body president more years ago than I’ll admit. Great guy. |
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