By Tim Hauserman
On January 25th the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Governing Board approved the Tahoe City Lodge project. Coming after approval by the Placer County Board of Supervisors on December 6th, developer Kila Properties can now move forward to finish design and start construction of the project, the first from scratch hotel built in Tahoe City in decades. Completion is expected in 2018.
The Tahoe City Lodge will will be a four story, condo/hotel with 118 units as well as restaurant facilities and in cooperation with the adjacent Tahoe City Golf Course/Tahoe City Winter Sports Park, meeting space. The property will replace the white stucco project built in the 1960s known as the Henrickson Building at 255 North Lake Blvd. near the entrance to Tahoe City. In contrast to other development proposals at Tahoe, the lodge has received strong support not only from the local business community who has hoped for a top notch hotel in Tahoe City for decades, but from environmental organizations which sees the benefits of redeveloping a parcel that has been in need of an upgrade for decades. The hope is that hotel guests will drive to the lodge, leave their car and then walk to restaurants, shops and the cinema.
“Given its location, its environmental benefits and the collaborative process that surrounded its development, the Tahoe City Lodge proposal stands as a model for how developers should proceed at Lake Tahoe,” said Darcie Goodman Collins, PhD, the League’s executive director. “This is the type of Lake-friendly project we envisioned for Tahoe when the League supported the Regional Plan Update in 2012.”
Join the celebration of approval for the Tahoe City Lodge on February 7th between 5-8 pm at the Tahoe City Winter Sports Park. For more information please go to: Tahoe City Lodge
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