City slows process for fund giving to hotel, old high school
A contractor removes old shingles from the roof of Hotel Libby last fall. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
Libby City Council members voted at Monday night’s meeting to pump the brakes on giving money to two local entrepreneurs who are trying to renovate properties that have seen better days.
The Friends of Historic Hotel Libby’s Gail Burger, who is renovating the Hotel Libby on California Avenue, and the partnership of Libby Lofts, including Zach and Tracy McNew, who hope to renovate the old high school, were seeking money for their respective projects.
Both structures received historic designations. The school got theirs in 2008 while the hotel got its in 2012.
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