How You Will Pay The First $6.7 Million Plus Interest  plus , a  Letter From Mayor Jim Janney!

ECO FRIENDLY OR ECOLI FRIENDLY?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvG3H-FNPxY&feature=player_embedded

A letter from Mayor Jim Janney.....................

Last August, I issued a statement spelling out my disappointment and frustration with the Seacoast Inn development project. At that time, the demolition of the existing building and plans to build a new, modern, eco-friendly hotel had been put on an indefinite hold. This disheartening news was a not only a major blow to the economic development and community improvement goals of the city, but also to my goal as mayor to see this project through to its completion.  

While delays have elongated the project timeline, I am very happy to report that City Council approved an agreement last week with the owners/developers, and the Seacoast Inn development plans are back on track. The new and improved hotel is anticipated to open in late 2011.

As a business owner myself, I am all too familiar with the delicate balance between economic feasibility and ethics? Despite the sluggish economy, Pacifica Companies, the owner/developer of Seacoast, has shown unwavering dedication to the project and community by pledging to fulfill its promise to build the new hotel. Through Pacifica's show of continued commitment, it has proven itself an upstanding partner who will construct a model hotel on our beachfront that we all desire. I am confident Pacifica will deliver the project as promised and I welcome their presence in our city to build a showcase boutique resort that will be an asset to the whole South Bay.

The city of Imperial Beach will continue to do all it can to ensure a new hotel will grace our oceanfront in the near future. The people of Imperial Beach can rest assured Pacifica will do the same.

Mayor Jim Janney

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Dear Mayor Jim:

The only thing we can rest assured is that you will continue to screw the people of Imperial Beach and accept favors from ethically challenged developers to put the financial burdon of a private enterprise on the back of the citizens of Imperial Beach.  If the only  way Imperial Beach can get a hotel is to give the money to Pacifica, maybe we don't need a hotel like that.  I  understand Pacifica will be building thousands of hotel rooms and condos  just over in Chula Vista on the bayfront. That will eliminate any competition and our hotel will quickly become condos or a gated community for exclusive use. That's what was really the plan all along. You just can't call it what it really is because of the Coastal Commission and California Law. (Editor)

SO HOW DOES THE EAGLE TIMES SPIN THE STORY TO TRY TO MAKE IT LOOK POSITIVE?

http://www.imperialbeachnewsca.com/articles/2010/05/06/news/news01.txt

That's whats so predicitable about this newspaper. They will only tell you what's in the official press release.....and that sure isnt' the whole truth....it's more like..EVERYTHING IS FINE...THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. ISN'T EVERTHING GOING TO BE WONDERFUL without telling you how they are going to cheat, steal and rob every property owner blind to pay for Mr. Israni's LLC's project. No matter how nice the so called hotel, Mr. Hankey will still come visit the beach every year, the hotel will fail....and it will be condos. Knowing this in advance....WHY ARE THEY STILL CALLING IT A HOTEL ?.....and would you pay $160 a night to stay there? You're going to pay the first $6.7 million ....YES YOU!(Editor)

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Dear SaveIB.com,
 
  It seems to me that as long as the Seacoast Inn is still standing, NO  ONE on the City Council should even consider running for re-election much less be considered for any other public position(Port Commissioner)!
 
Erick G. Rauch
 
 
p.s. On a side note,I was looking at the archives for 2006 election and its gone? Election Guide? E!

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Getting Their Hotel Stories Straight? Allison Rolfe & Janine Zunigia / Zunigia Can't Count To 3 !!! 3 Floors Janine...Not 4.

IMPERIAL BEACH — A 24-hour security guard watches over the beachfront Seacoast Inn, its pool and rooms emptied, its three-story expanse surrounded by a green, 6-foot-tall fence posted with “No Trespassing” signs. The dilapidated hotel, which is on 1.4 acres, was closed last week after city officials found numerous structural, electrical, mechanical and fire-safety violations that the owners decided not to immediately correct. The closure further disappointed city officials who learned last month that the owner had again postponed the hotel's demolition. “It's a very big disappointment,” Mayor Jim Janney said. “I'm questioning if the project will get done.” Pacifica Cos., which has owned the hotel since 1995, has been working on plans to raze the 38-room hotel and replace it with a 78-room, “contemporary Mediterranean” resort. Two curved buildings would offer ocean views from each room and provide oceanfront dining, conference facilities, a pool, underground parking, a circular entryway and water features. In late July, fire, building and code-compliance officials began a joint commercial inspection of the 48-year-old hotel. It was part of a planned, city-directed inspection of all commercial operations. City officials found nearly 50 violations, including no working sprinklers on the second floor, cracked beams and masonry, and extensive termite damage. “In some areas, I think the termites were holding it together,” code-compliance officer David Garcias said. Other violations included structural metal hardware corroded beyond repair, a rotted enclosure with no door housing the main electrical panel, and no smoke detectors in the third-floor penthouse. Pacifica Cos. was told to correct the violations or shut down the hotel by Sept. 8, city officials said. Guests were in some rooms right up until it closed, Garcias said. Pacifica Cos. was required to fence the property, empty the pool and provide 24-hour security. Moving trucks carted away furniture last week. Allison Rolfe, Pacifica's manager for the project, said the company will take the next 30 days to research its options and develop a plan. The Seacoast Inn's demolition has been put off three times. Pacifica officials, citing an inability to obtain financing for its condo-hotel-designed project, said last month that the most recent postponement was indefinite. City officials were disappointed with the two earlier delays, but were relieved that the company was moving forward. This last postponement angered some. In a letter to the community in late August, Janney called the hotel “a disgraceful example of a waterfront property.” Pacifica owner Ash Israni said he never operates hotels in the Seacoast Inn's condition. He said that since demolition was imminent, no work was done to improve the hotel. Israni said he is committed to building a new hotel. Pacifica is working with investment firm Piper Jaffray and is considering stimulus bonds. Israni said the problem is not unique to his company. “No new hotels are being built right now in San Diego,” Israni said. “The (San Diego Unified Port District) has four waterfront projects approved that can't get financing.” Brown said the city will also try to identify possible financing or consider providing some help. Brown said Pacifica also is considering a major rehabilitation of the hotel. Janney said he hopes not. “The community was promised a new-quality hotel on the beach, and a paint job on the existing hotel is not a new-quality hotel,” the mayor said.

For the second time in six months, plans to demolish the dilapidated Seacoast Inn have been postponed. Developer Ash Israni, president of Pacifica Cos., planned to tear down the 38-room beachfront hotel in October and begin building a 78-room resort. But in August, Pacifica Cos. announced it was pushing the date back to February. Then last week, Israni told the Imperial Beach City Council that demolition would be pushed back even further – to August. City officials said they were disappointed with the delay, but also expressed relief that Pacifica was moving forward with the project despite a weak economy. “I was hoping for demolition this month,” Mayor Jim Janney told Israni at a City Council meeting last week. “I was hoping for it last October. But I'm looking for a beautiful hotel project on our beach here in I.B. and you're leading us there.” Plans call for replacing the rectangular Seacoast Inn, built in 1961, with a “contemporary Mediterranean” resort with two curved buildings that will provide ocean views from each of its 78 rooms. The new hotel will have oceanfront dining; conference facilities; underground parking; a pool; a large, circular driveway; and waterfalls. The demolition was first postponed because there were delays securing consultants for the project. Pacifica officials had said that if they demolished the hotel in October it would sit empty for five months, because without the consultants they couldn't get building plans and permits. The project was delayed again when Pacifica's mortgage holder asked for a $1 million prepayment penalty. Pacifica is seeking to eliminate or reduce the penalty. Allison Rolfe, Pacifica's project manager, said she didn't think the company would be able to get the penalty reduced and finish excavating the site by Memorial Day. The California Coastal Commission prohibits Pacifica from placing equipment on the sand from Memorial Day to Labor Day because it might disturb vacationers during the busy beach season. In August, Rolfe said the first delay would not affect the opening date of April 2010. However, the new demolition date has moved that date to the end of 2010. Israni said he has invested about $1 million in the project, and he assured the council the project is moving forward. “We've been going full bore,” Israni said. “What we're trying to do is proceed in a cautious way in this tough economic time.” Rolfe told the council about several new features at the resort, including larger picture windows in each room and a roof-top patio. She said builders will not use a noisy, vibrating system to drive piles for the foundation. A new system is much quieter. Rolfe also said Pacifica is pushing for a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, designation, which encourages green building and development practices. “We'll have the first green eco-resort on the West Coast,” Rolfe said. Meanwhile, complaints persist at Seacoast Inn. Councilwoman Lorie Bragg told Israni last week that the conditions at the hotel were “deplorable.” “If you are going to put off demolition for six months, you really need to bring the amenities into compliance,” Bragg said. “Make sure there are lights that work and phones that ring. I've been told people have had to bring in their own sheets.” Israni promised to correct the problems immediately.

  Developer Ash Israni of Pacifica Cos. Indefinitely Postpones Plans to
 Build a Luxury Resort in Imperial Beach, California

SOUTH COUNTY — Imperial Beach's dream of an oceanfront resort hotel is in as many pieces as a glass float swept onto riprap. Mayor Jim Janney disassociated himself from the Pacifica Companies project in a mass e-mail sent last weekend. Pacifica was supposed to tear down the decrepit Seacoast Inn after Labor Day and rebuild. The tiny city had pinned its hopes for revitalizing on this $25 million project. It stared down the mighty Coastal Commission a year ago and won approval for Pacifica of a hotel/condo financing concept. The plans were grand: A green hotel with ocean views and kitchenettes in every room, restaurant, rooftop event area and underground parking. But deadlines came and went – repeatedly. Pacifica just whispered to Janney that the project does not pencil out and not to expect anything for years. “I have not given up on this,” Pacifica President Ash Israni told this editorial page. But Mayor Janney has – on Pacifica. “Businesses take risks,” Janney said, “but not him. To lead us to believe all these years ... ” Israni blames the recession, lowered hotel occupancies and lender disenchantment with hotel/condos. Blame what you want, but also blame timidity. Whoever builds the first resort in Imperial Beach must be a pioneer. They have to believe that if they build it, if they market it, people will come. This oceanfront hotel could be Coronado Light at a fraction of the price. Pacifica's overly conservative projections call for 90 percent occupancy in July and August and 75 percent in June and September. An oceanfront hotel at bargain prices that can't sell out in summer? Well, Pacifica, which operates 30 hotels in its portfolio, wasn't planning to do any marketing. Now we get it. Pacifica has several options: Continue to be associated with a rundown property. (It admits the Seacoast name is worthless.) Build a plain vanilla motel with no services. (But there are plenty of spots down the road for that.) Snooker Imperial Beach out of redevelopment money. (Without Janney's leadership, good luck.) Sell a site with all the permits to a company not afraid to be bold.

Seacoast Inn in Imperial Beach gains final approvalBy CARLOS RICOThe Daily TranscriptWith the city of ImperialBeach wanting to revitalize itsoceanfront and Pacifica Cos.needing to remodel one oftheir hotels, the constructionof the new Seacoast Inn hasjust received its final approvaland is anticipated to be completedin fall 2009.The project passed its lasthurdle in April, when theCalifornia CoastalCommission approved thecurrent plan, which calls for acomplete demolishment ofthe old three-story structureand the construction of afour-story hotel with 40 additionalrooms — totaling 78units.The plan is for Seacoast Innto be a condo-hotel, wherepeople will be able to purchasea room and be partowner.mum of 25 days consecutively.“These are not like timeshares,”Rolfe added. “All therooms will be made availablefor purchase, but will stilloperate like a hotel.”Investors and the public willDemolition of the old hotel is set to begin in the fall. A grand opening is scheduled for winter 2009.“This is a relatively newconcept that came about afterSept. 11 and has become a newway to market hotels in areas(like Imperial Beach) that areolder neighborhoods,” saidAllison Rolfe, planning directorfor Pacifica Cos.Those who purchase a roomwill receive some of the revenuewith Pacifica — a mainreason why people invest inthis type of establishment,according to Rolfe.But there are restrictions.Investors will only be able toreside in their rooms for 90days each year, and  have to reserve a room —which will all feature the samedesign — through theSeacoast Inn staff, but therewill be no limit on the numberof days the public can stay.According to Rolfe, roomswill be sold and rented out atmarket rate. Pacific hiredJones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL), a third-party financialand professional services firm,to find out how much this ratewould be. She said roomswould be sold for $345,000and would go for $135 pernight on average.The project has been in theworks since the turn of thecentury. In 2001, the processgot started when the city andPacifica got together and createdinitial designs. The cityencouraged the developer torethink its renovation plansand go to more of a “demolishand rebuild” project.“We needed a noteworthyhotel for the city and we neededa signature (project) tojump-start the redevelopmentof the area,” said Greg Wade,community developmentdirector for Imperial Beach.“So this was a perfect opportunityto accomplish both things.”Wade added that for the cityand the coastal commission toapprove this project, it neededto be a totally new structure,and add more rooms andamenities to invite other businessto renovate their establishments.The project’s approval wasalso largely dependent on theaddition of more public beachproperty. Currently, the hotelrides along the shores. Thenew building will be built fartheraway from the water,where the current parking lotis located, which will addroughly 35 feet in width ofbeach land to the public.The restoration of beachproperty is just one way thehotel will become more “ecofriendly.”Other “green” componentsfor the new hotel will includesolar panels, recycled materialssuch as shells and glassfrom the sea, and landscapingthat uses low amounts ofwater. According to Rolfe, thebuilding is expected to receiveLEED certification from theU.S Green Building Council.Street improvements to DateAvenue also are part of theproject, including new paving,landscaping, parking andrealignment of the seawall.Amenities the 800 SeacoastDrive location include undergroundparking, meetingrooms, outdoor patio, heatedpool, spa, restaurant andcocktail lounge.Demolition of the old hotelis set to begin in the fall andconstruction will follow. Agrand opening is scheduledfor winter 2009.“We are very excited aboutthe opportunities this visitor enhancingproject will bringto our city,” said Jim Janney,Imperial Beach mayor, in apress release. “Not only willthe new and expanded hotelhelp showcase our beautifulbeaches, but it will also add toour revenue base and bringadditional jobs to our city.”carlos.rico@sddt.comSource Code: 20080619crd

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PUBLIC COMMENTS ON $6.7 Million Hotel Scam With Pacifica

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHuNriF6c84                              Steve Futterman on Hotel $6.7 million

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErUQrkEDFSg                            John Carr  on Hotel  $6.7 million

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHLUOMdNuyc                            Ed Kravitz on Hotel $6.7 million

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MguDnZVnOeE                          Tim  O'Neil on Hotel $6.7 million

http://www.youtube.com/user/johndoereport#p/a/u/1/kAeGxKROFNE   John Haupt on Hotel $6.7 million

http://www.youtube.com/user/johndoereport#p/a/u/2/Qks3NAVoEe4   Robert  Miller on Hotel $6.7 million

Diane Rose on Hotel "THIS REALLY SUCKS"!   http://www.youtube.com/user/johndoereport#p/a/u/0/jYoPHe55auc

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Public input and council deliberations to enter into a $6.7 million M.O.U. with Pacifica and   "BIG ASH"  as Mayor Janney affectionately referred to Pacifica's CEO Ash Israni.

 This is a "BIG ASH" Mayor Janney !  This Deal Stinks !

A year ago Janney called him a liar in the Union Tribune. Something has changed. Watch the video here in the next 24 hours and decide for yourself! Janney comments to Ash's brother who appeared in Chambers in person, that he (Janney) had just had a private meeting with Big Ash the previous day. Some question might be asked as to whether or not it is legal for Mayor Janney to meet with a developer in private prior to public negociations and a vote. One also has to question why Janney likes Mr. Israni and his corporate welfare plan so much better after giving I.B. a bad name for over 15 years?

Tell your friends to check out this video from council chambers, of your neighbors and friends stating all the reasons why council should not enter into this dubious agreement.....and then watch council as planned.....approve the measure ignoring the input and the facts!  TALK ABOUT A "DONE DEAL" ?  

 Wake up I.B. 

You are going to pay for this fiasco out of your pocket!

The Union Tribune barel slaps them on the wrist!

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/may/01/a-hotel-for-imperial-beach/   

The light-footed clapper rail is the signature bird of Imperial Beach. It is not to be confused with the clumsy-footed developer, an entirely different species.

2005 Story Seems Current Today ?

This isn't the only money she got from Israni & Pacifica...and just what was in that breifcase Patricia?  Freakin Air?

Are McCoy & Israni "IN BED TOGETHER" ???

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Getting Their Hotel Stories Straight? Allison Rolfe & Janine Zunigia / Zunigia Can't Count To 3 !!! 3 Floors Janine...Not 4.

Check out Susan McCabe and her work with the Coastal Commission to End Short Term Beach rentals giving Israni a virtual monopoly and also for height and density variations. McCoy voted to use McCabe less than a year after receiving $250 campaign donation. Donation would have precluded McCoy being able to vote on this matter....but it didn't stop her. It was an illegal vote to give Israni unfair advantage over other rental property owners and over the existing height restrictions of the Coastal Plan.

This isn't the only donation from Israni...Pacifica ....and just what was in that breifcase on 12/29/04   ?

SHOW YOUR FREINDS THIS INCREDIBLE VIDEO....AND PLEASE HELP SUPPORT OUR CONTINUED VIDEO RECORDING OF COUNCIL MEETINGS UNTIL THE CITY FUFILLS IT'S RESPONSIBLITY TO BROADCAST OR DISTRIBUTE THESE VIDEO RECORDS OR SHARE THE VIDEO STREAM WITH SAVEIB.COM OR OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS AND OR THE PUBLIC.

Have you had enough? Are you fed up with wasteful government spending and giveaways?

Here's your chance to make a difference right here in your own community. Don't you think it's time you attended one of the faux council meetings and give them your three minutes for your own piece of mind? Tell them you don't want the RDA giving away money to slumlord developers and hotel operators. You want streets, schools, a rec center and better law enforcement.

Educate yourself how your city staff and council waste millions of dollars every year. Let them know you've had enough and you're not going to support any of them for re-election if they give away these millions for condos instead of a real hotel. The man owns a bank for God's sake. If he can't get the financing, have the city eminent domain it and give it to Motel 6. At least they will build a hotel that people could afford to stay at. At $164 a night the new hotel will go broke the first year and have to be re-zoned 100% condo. So what was that about having a beachfront hotel all about anyway.  It's smoke and mirrors and an almost $7 million dollar giveaway by the same idiots that just spent over $12 million dollars destroying 25% of the communitiy's longest established businesses by taking over the Miracle Shopping Center. These people are not incompetent boobs....they just work for the developers and not for the people that elected them. This is a wake up call IB.

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2 Faces Of Pacifica

 CITY ENTERS INTO $6.7 MILLION DOLLAR M.O.U. WHEN BROKE !

Having maintained Imperial Beach's showcase motel as a slum for over 15 years and further damaging Imperial Beach's reputation as a tourist and surfing destination, The City will reward Israni after only recently enforcing city codes and shutting him down. Powerful political forces are at play to reward this man with almost $7 million dollars at this point. An unusual relationship must exist? Further complicating the issue is that the new structure will be condos, priced too high to be competitive for hotel accomodations. The motel will fail and all the units will end up as condos. But hey!  Who Cares?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/08/action-on-seacoast-inn-plan-postponed-until-april/

IT'S NOT A HOTEL.....IT'S CONDOS...        "How To Serve Man "...  It's a Cookbook !   What Public Money?

What do you mean he couldn't get financing? He owns a freaking bank! This is a give-away of tax payer's money...pure and simple. The hotel will not make it as a hotel and you will have no hotel rooms to serve the beach. Just private condos. That's not what the Coastal Commission Envisioned?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/apr/07/city-hopes-redevelopment-grant-can-help-get/

Ashok Israni, computer engineer, Electrical Engineer, CEO of Pacifica Companies, San Diego, CA, $2 billion in assets and employs more than 2,300 people- hold 30 properties located in Arizona, California, Florida, Texas, and New York. Most of the hotels have recognized brand names such as Marriott, Courtyard by Marriott, Best Western, Holiday Inn, DoubleTree, Clarion, Hilton and Radisson. 

He practically got the hotel for free in 1995. The city gave him a subsidy to welcome him to town that was almost equal to what he paid on the balance of the loan owed on the foreclosure.

So 15 years later they are going to give him a grant that is almost 7 times what he paid for the current hotel and property. NICE.  And just who are his partners in the LLC?   Anybody we know that has ever been in local government? What was in those two breifcases that Israni gave to Rose and McCoy 4 years ago? Looks like the giveaway's continue. I believe that both Patricia McCoy and Diane Rose should not be allowed to vote on this matter because of their previous financial involvements with Mr. Israni !

I also believe that Mr. Israni has had adequate time to show his cards. The city would be wiser to eminent domain the property and give it to any hotel chain that would build a generic name brand motel on the site immediately. Not Condos!

Nobody is going to come have a convention in IB so why do we need a convention center? These folks have to be in bed together to be giving a known slumlord  a public grant or subsidy in such hard economic times.

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http://pacificacapitalgroup.com/index.html

(March 2010) Rumors that Pacifica and Ash Israni are trying to move the permitting process along to do "something" at the Seacoast Inn seem to have some merit. Whether the RDA is going to give bundles of money to Pacifica to build Condos and not a true 100% visitor serving hotel seems to be mostly a closed session item. Israni converted the two hotels he bought in National City to Condominiums. He just cut a big land swap deal with Chula Vista's RDA and the Port Real Estate Division to do a big hotel and development on Chula Vista's Bayfront. Why would he want to build a competing hotel of quality in Imperial Beach?

The Council continues to ignore the facts about what kind of hotel Mr. Israni has operated in I.B. since 1995. They forget or ignore the on-line testimonial of hundreds of dissatisfied and angry customers ,who will never come back to Imperial Beach! Not because the water was contaminated, but because their hotel room was filthy dirty beyond reason for the price they had been raped for.

 A Motel 6, Comfort Inn or other generic hotel chain could do a much better job! Pacifica has already had 15 years to demonstrate their ability and their motivation.  Instead of subsidizing Pacifica to build this ALBATROSS ,ON THE PUBLIC'S DOLLAR;the City should take the property from Pacifica under eminent domain and either convert it to a public beach park connected to Dunes Park.....or give it to any hotel chain that will build a generic hotel on the site  NOW!

What do you think?

What do you know?

Let's put some information together here at:  SaveIBonline@yahoo.com

Pacifica Explains To Council And Staff Just What They Will Get For Their Millions in RDA Investments !

SEACOAST ALL STORIES FILE

• Eminent Domain Third Ammendment Letter Insures Hotel Monopoly
• Appeal Coastal Commission Seacoast Inn Feb 7
• HOTEL RDA CRONIES RDA Coming Out Of Closet
• BREIF CASE MYSTERIES ROSE MCCOY PACIFICA ISRANI
• Short Term Beach Rentals VS Hotel Monopoly
• EXTRA FLOOR ROOF 150 PEOPLE.hotel
• Chamber Orchestrates Support For Condo Hotel
• Coastal Commission Rules Cond/Hotels Illegal
• Condo Hotels ? 1
• From San Diego Business Journal RE Seacoast Inn
• Hotel Plans Violate Coastal Law & Municipal Code
• Letters Of Concerne Regarding Condo/Hotel
• Pacifica's Unhappy Customers Web Site
• Pacifica Donations and Breifcase
• Beachfront Rentals Hypocracy By City Council (John Carr)
• CCC Seacoast Inn Demolition Delayed

Ashok Israni- Pacifica Companies, San Diego, CA, $2 billion in assets- properties including hotels San Diego, California, NRI to build second five-star hotel in Gujarat Ahmedabad, April 20, 2008 Ashok Shah NRI Ashok Israni, an entrepreneur, CEO of Pacifica Companies at San Diego, California will build 2nd five story hotel in Gujrat, sources said. His company made a bid of Rs.240 million to Tourism Corporation of Gujarat Ltd (TCGL) to acquire a land . The first hotel project in Gujarat is a five-star business class hotel in association with the Marriott International lodging company. It will be the largest five-star hotel in Gujarat with 160 rooms Its construction is about to begin any time. He became a computer engineer after receiving his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Loyola University. He served in management positions at NCR Corporation and National Semiconductor. In 1978 he began to buy and sell residential property in California and established Pacifica Companies in San Diego. In 2003, Pacifica was ranked the number two home builder in San Diego and rose to number one in the first quarter of 2005, according to San Diego Metropolitan Magazine His company owns hotels, office and industrial buildings, retail shopping centers, apartment projects and single-family communities throughout the United States. Pacifica has nearly $2 billion in assets Pacifica Hosts Inc. of Pacifica Companies is also managing over 30 hotels of various sizes including 600-room hotel at the Los Angeles International Airport. In 2007, Ashok Israni has been elected to the Boards of Directors of the corporation and its subsidiary, City National Bank.

City Of Imperial Beach Approves Seacoast Inn Plans: New Hotel Slated To Open Late 2011

Fed on a steady diet of Fluff and Bullshit, Eagle & Times readers have been kept in the dark so long..............

They're even starting to look like mushrooms !

Plans to transform Imperial Beach's oceanfront and expand its tourism potential have been set in motion with the city's approval of an agreement with Pacifica Companies, the owner of the Seacoast Inn, an older three-story hotel at 800 Seacoast Drive. The now vacant, existing structure will be demolished to make way for a new four-story, 78-room hotel on the same location.

"We are very excited about the opportunities this visitor-enhancing project will bring to our city," said Jim Janney, Imperial Beach mayor . "Not only will the new and expanded hotel help showcase our beautiful beaches, but it will also add to our revenue base and bring additional jobs to our city. It's been a long process to get to this point, but Pacifica has been a willing partner in the project and the end result will reflect their unwavering dedication to the hotel and community."

For more of this story, click on or type the URL below:

http://www.imperialbeachnewsca.com/articles/2010/06/24/news/news08.txt

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What's worst about this story is that they don't tell you that Israni and Pacifica won't develop unless the city passes a $6.7 million dollar bond to give to him.

That is over twice the mortgaged value of the hotel, which Israni has mortgaged for almost triple the value of what he paid for the delinquent property.

Janney's lofty words about a hotel are hollow. With the Sandcastle Inn across the street in default on their taxes, who would loan Israni money to build an overpriced hotel that will be condos!

Nobody in their right mind will pay $160 a night for a room in I.B.    The hotel will be broke in a year unless all units are converted to condos...so

Why do they even bother to call it a motel?  It won't be a public serving facility. The public and the Coastal Commission have been decieved. You taxpaying citizens are going to pay for it , even though it's ownership will be private!

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Dear SaveIB.com:

BS !!!   Not demolished yet?  Where do I sign up for a briefcase from Pacifica? More waste of RDA money and who is going to pay $164 per night to utilize our literally shitty beach?? Restaurants and small businesses have dropped like flies  waiting for this glorious monument to bullshit City Council to open it's doors. City Council members are  a disappointment to the citizens of IB, but so twisted that residents and merchants are reluctant to fight back.

I want my comments ANO 2

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The Seacoast Inn Remembered

by Ed Kravitz

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/sep/19/imperial-beachs-doomed-motel/

The demise of the Seacoast Inn is kind of like loosing the family dog.  You love it and it's been around for years and years, but you know even in your own mind that it's better off put it to sleep rather than to continue to try to kept alive.  Although you  are emotionally and sentimentally attached, you have to face the reality and let go.

And so it is with some sadness that we see the end of an era in Imperial Beach. We're not really surprised, but we know it's time.  It's times like these when one could eulogize the demise of the Seacoast Inn because everyone who lives in Imperial Beach has had an experience there!  Everyone in Imperial Beach either went to a party or got drunk or got laid at the Seacoast Inn at least once !  EVERYONE !  If you live in I.B. and you never did.....you're a nobody !

And so we'd like to announce a new feature at SaveIB.com.  We want to  hear your Seacoast Inn Story !  Maybe not all the gorey details, but something interesting that happened to you when you stayed at the Seacoast Inn.  I was once paid to live there for 6 months as a caretaker in 1995 after the hotel had been foreclosed and plundered. I'll be posting a couple of stories about my six months living there with Star , the German Shepard ! If we get enough response, we might publish a paperback book of Seacoast Inn Stories.....the culture and times of Imperial Beach!

How about your story?  I know you all have one.  Think of this as a public memorial for the Seacoast Inn............not what it is today....but what it was to our community in years past and what it was in our personal lives.  Can't wait to hear your stories! SaveIBonline@yahoo.com

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Dear SaveIB.com

I knew it, I knew it. I knew it !

 My friends were in town and we closed the Plank!  We walked back down the beach to the hotel. That was nice!

I.B. RULES  !    Old School !  Those were the F'n Days Bro !