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Greeley, CO leaders dig into first dirt on hotel, convention center project
Chaminade Resort & Spa | April 12, 2016
April 12--Before Greeley Mayor Tom Norton left for the downtown hotel and conference center groundbreaking Tuesday afternoon, he went through his personal city document archives. He found a study the Downtown Development Authority commissioned in 1998. That was the first official inkling anyone had about a plan to build a hotel and convention center downtown. "That's a long time in the development process," he said before a crowd of about 150 who gathered at the Lincoln Park Annex, the site of he $31 million project. Leaders -- public and private -- have worked to bring the facility to Greeley for almost 20 years, and now ...