Historic Danville Hotel about to get a new life

Contra Costa Times

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DANVILLE -- Throughout its more than 150-year history, the Danville Hotel has had many lives: it has been a hotel, a boardinghouse, a fine-dining destination, a shopping plaza and a Wild West attraction.

Since 1858, it has been destroyed, rebuilt, revamped and reborn through the eras. And in the New Year, it'll be born again.

Demolition of the dilapidated portions of the building complex, known in its entirety as the Danville Hotel Territory, will begin after Jan. 8, clearing the way for work to start in early February on an 18-month, $25 million construction project to create a 35,000-square-foot retail, residential and commercial development in the heart of downtown.

It will include 16 second-floor condominiums, three restaurants, an outdoor plaza and stores.

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