San Diego elected leaders clear the way for a 60-room boutique hotel and offices in Little Italy despite objections from the Airport Authority that the project poses a safety risk because it is und…
Hospitality group CH Projects wants to develop a 60-room hotel on a key block in Little Italy but San Diego airport officials say the plans are incompatible with local air safety regulations for the downtown area. The hospitality company behind the ambitious transformation of San Diego’s Lafayette Hotel cleared a major hurdle Tuesday in its quest to build a boutique hotel and wellness center in Little Italy.
San Diego Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, who also sits on the Airport Authority board, hastened to point out that the airport did nothing wrong in ruling against the hotel project. “I’m not sure it’s wise for us to say we’ve put everybody else in harm’s way so let’s go ahead and throw one more in, but given Councilmember Von Wilpert’s comment, sitting on the Airport Authority, I will be voting in support of this,” he said.
While CH Projects is known more for its portfolio of such high-profile restaurants and bars as Born & Raised, Seneca Trattoria and Ironside Fish & Oyster, it has become increasingly captivated by the hotel industry.on El Cajon Boulevard, CH is in the midst of redeveloping yet another hotel — the 31-room La Avenida Inn in Coronado that will open in October in its new incarnation as the Baby Grand hotel.
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