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City Council Votes to Accept Hotel Study
For the most part, the Galesburg City Council likes a study that was done determining the city could use another hotel.

Aldermen voted this week to formally receive the $4,700 study. As we reported first last week, the study looked at several areas of town, mostly along the highways and along North Seminary Street, and determined that in part because of several facilities closing or being torn down, the city could sustain another hotel.

Seventh Ward Alderman Jeremy Karlin says he believes City Manager Todd Thompson and Mayor Sal Garza have, in some respects, been unfairly criticized for allowing the study to be done.

"If our economic development group is dealing with hotel companies, and they are seeking to potentially put a hotel here, they shouldn't have to take our word for it, that we need a hotel," Karlin said. "I think in their exercise of due diligence, it makes perfect sense that a study be done to justify a hotel being brought in."

That said, the study was approved by the mayor and not the City Council, and Karlin says he wishes the study would have been brought a little more out into the open before it was done.

Mayor Sal Garza calls the study an "investment" into what could be a multi-million dollar construction project. A hotel wanting to locate in Galesburg asked for the study to be done.
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