Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Downtown Motel up for auction
The Downtown Motel property will be auctioned at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 17, to the highest bidder.
George Moline of Moline Real Estate and Auction Company confirmed the current owner plans to sell.
Lubavitch Yeshiva School of St. Paul retained the services of the Moline firm to sell the real estate at 209 First Ave. SE. The property includes eight lots-plus between 1st Avenue and Oakland and Second and Third streets southeast.
Built in 1976, the original Downtown Motel was owned by Neil S. and Betty B. Munro and featured 42 units, according to Moline.
The next owner was David Sundal and it was also expanded with a two-story tier of rooms along East Oakland Avenue.
Prior to its acquisition by the St. Paul Hasidic Judaism order a year ago, there was still another (unidentified) private owner.
The Hasidic Judaism order turned the motel into a school for the ultra-Orthodox Judaism's 13-15 year old boys last summer.
Only a week ago, the order announced the former motel would be a summer school for 13-year-old boys, while the older teens would utilize a building in Freeborn County.
In the late-1990s, the then-motel suffered the ignominy of becoming a target of frequent police calls.
Tragically, two men were killed and a third wounded in a botched armed robbery attempt June 30, 2000 at the motel across 1st Avenue Southeast from the U.S. Post Office.
The city of Austin has targeted the property for rehabilitation in the last 12 months. Most recently, city of Austin and Mower County officials have discussed the possibility of turning the property into the site of a new health and human services building.
The tax-exempt property owned by the Hasidic order is assessed at $294,700.
Moline Real Estate and Auction Company is owned by the father and son team of George and Steve Moline.
The auction sale bills with details of the pending sale are expected to be in circulation soon, according to the owners.
http://www.austindailyherald.com/articles/2005/06/28/news/news3.txt
The Downtown Motel property will be auctioned at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 17, to the highest bidder.
George Moline of Moline Real Estate and Auction Company confirmed the current owner plans to sell.
Lubavitch Yeshiva School of St. Paul retained the services of the Moline firm to sell the real estate at 209 First Ave. SE. The property includes eight lots-plus between 1st Avenue and Oakland and Second and Third streets southeast.
Built in 1976, the original Downtown Motel was owned by Neil S. and Betty B. Munro and featured 42 units, according to Moline.
The next owner was David Sundal and it was also expanded with a two-story tier of rooms along East Oakland Avenue.
Prior to its acquisition by the St. Paul Hasidic Judaism order a year ago, there was still another (unidentified) private owner.
The Hasidic Judaism order turned the motel into a school for the ultra-Orthodox Judaism's 13-15 year old boys last summer.
Only a week ago, the order announced the former motel would be a summer school for 13-year-old boys, while the older teens would utilize a building in Freeborn County.
In the late-1990s, the then-motel suffered the ignominy of becoming a target of frequent police calls.
Tragically, two men were killed and a third wounded in a botched armed robbery attempt June 30, 2000 at the motel across 1st Avenue Southeast from the U.S. Post Office.
The city of Austin has targeted the property for rehabilitation in the last 12 months. Most recently, city of Austin and Mower County officials have discussed the possibility of turning the property into the site of a new health and human services building.
The tax-exempt property owned by the Hasidic order is assessed at $294,700.
Moline Real Estate and Auction Company is owned by the father and son team of George and Steve Moline.
The auction sale bills with details of the pending sale are expected to be in circulation soon, according to the owners.
http://www.austindailyherald.com/articles/2005/06/28/news/news3.txt
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