For Star subscribers: Pima Community College board to vote on whether to demolish three 1940s/'50s hotels on Drachman near downtown, including the Tucson Inn.
Kathryn Palmer Pima Community College’s Governing Board is weighing the fate of three historic hotel properties on Drachman Street north of downtown Tucson.
People are also reading… Board member Maria D. Garcia said at a study session in April that she’s “fully supportive of cultural history,” but that given the college’s declining enrollment, renovating these properties “should not be a priority for PCC.” She added that “If the city wants them, let the city do something with them.”
While the Tucson Inn's fate remains unknown, PCC recently completed restoration of the hotel's iconic neon sign.In September 2017, the board approved purchase of the Tucson Inn at 127 W. Drachman St. for roughly $1.1 million. It subsequently approved buying the nearby Frontier Motel for $1.3 million and the Copper Cactus for $1.6 million in June and November of 2018, respectively.
Project never had full supportAnd while the board approved the motion to move forward in June 2021, it did so with support from only three of its members, and none of those supporters, who included Clinco, are still on the board. “We only have so much bandwidth as an institution,” Lambert said. “We had to focus our energies in certain areas. This did not require us to make an immediate decision. The HLC issues required a greater level of attention, and then we also had an election coming up.”
The $10 million figure “was never intended to represent a project budget,” D’Lena told the board on Monday. “Rather, it was an amount set aside so we could go through this process and get into construction, and at that point understand truly what the budget would be.”
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