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Start of construction on a three-story, 60room country inn in Greencastle is expected to begin next spring, according to Lawrence Taylor, a partner in the local firm of Ploshay & Taylor, developer of the project. Groundbreaking had been anticipated this fall, but Taylor said a number of procedural requirements could not be met in time to accomplish a significant amount of work before the advent of winter weather. “IT’S STILL VERY MUCH a go project,” said Taylor, who also serves as a Greencastle City Councilman. “There just wasn’t enough time to complete everything for the start of construction this fall. We now anticipate getting started next spring.” Announced in June, the project involves construction of the 40,000-square-foot hotel on the block bounded by Seminary, Vine, Center and Indiana streets. Only three blocks south of the Putnam County Courthouse, the site borders the northern perimeter of the DePauw University campus. As presented to the Greencastle Plan Commission and the City Council, the country inn will include a 120-seat dining room and a 60-seat lounge on the main level. The second and third floors will have 30 guest rooms each. A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN prepared by Indianapolis architect David Powers shows the inn’s main entrance on the east side (Vine Street), which is at a substantially higher elevation than the west

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side (Indiana Street). Entry on the west side will be at the basement level, where parking will be provided for 26 cars. Another 30 parking spaces will be created along the hotel’s southern perimeter via angle parking along each side of Center Street. Public entrances to the main-floor restaurant, lounge and meeting rooms will be from Seminary Street on the north side. Meeting rooms will accommodate groups ranging in size from 20 to 260. ACCORDING TO THE architect, the main floor design is “intended to offer an environment entirely different from a chain hotel - a country inn flavor.” The main lobby will feature a large stone

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fireplace, wood floors and possibly a library area, while open balconies on the second and third levels will look down onto the lobby. Ploshay & Taylor anticipate that operation of the country inn will create some 40 full- and part-time jobs. In a presentation to the Plan Commission in June, partner Bruce Ploshay said those positions would be filled both by community residents and DePauw students. The proposed site of the hotel is owned by DePauw University, but will be leased on a long-term basis to a group of investors, as yet unnamed, being assembled by Ploshay & Taylor. A DECISION TO PROCEED with the

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country inn project in June was based on a 59-page study of the local market for lodging, restaurant and lounge facilities, completed earlier this year by Laventhol & Horwath, a Chicago firm. That report concluded that the hotel, complete with restaurant and lounge, would be supported by a sufficient number of local residents, university guests, business travelers and tourists. The marketing study was commissioned jointly by DePauw University, Ploshay & Taylor and Daseke & Co., Westport, Conn. Donald R. Daseke, president of the Connecticut real estate investment and management firm, recently was elected to DePauw’s Board of Trustees.

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