GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Inside the walls of a 1920’s hotel, crews are working to preserve history. President of KPH, Keith Harenda says work on Green Bay’s Hotel Northland is on schedule.
“we are now doing floor layouts and we’ll be then starting floor by floor with construction”
He says when it’s finished it will have a fine dining restaurant, a sports bar and a luxurious ballroom. All with an eye on historic preservation.
The entire cost of the project rings in at $46 million, with a majority of that coming from a Historic Tax Credit.
Harenda says because of the tax credit, the rooms will be built to look like they did the in 1920’s,
“whether it be the paint colors, or the stain colors, or the tile….the layout of the rooms, the layout of the hallways”
People like Jeff Mirkes, with Downtown Green Bay, Inc, says once the hotel is finished, it will bring more people to downtown Green Bay.
“you can already feel what it is going to fell like as it nears completion and I think the community is going to be thrilled with the finished product”
The goal is still to open the downtown landmark hotel this fall.
