For Sale: Scotia Inn
Frank Bacik, Town of Scotia Co.’s vice president and director of legal affairs, last week said the inn’s sale can help Marathon recover part of the interest it had in Pacific Lumber Co. “It’s an integral part of the town,” Bacik said. “It attracts tourists and is an amazing facility — but we’re not in the hotel business.”
However, Bacik said, nothing can’t be sold in fee at this point because a subdivision of the entire 400-acre town — which exists on one tax parcel — hasn’t been completed. “Separate buildings and homes can’t be sold in the usual way. But a long-term lease could be given, contingent upon the ultimate subdivision.”
For now, someone can buy the inn for $2.5 million and lease the site — 2.1 acres — for $1; then, when the subdivision of the town is completed, “buy” it for $1, said Durham.
Eventually, the other town assets also will be sold off.
“We have a hardware store and a post office, two churches, a water/sewer treatment plant, a fire department,” said Bacik. “Nobody in the world is equipped to operate that wide variety. It was a company town, and it was sort of an anachronism with respect to the sort of patronage that Palco exerted over the entire village here. And all of these things can be run better than Palco ever did and better than any single business can do.”
The subdivision process involves an environmental review of the subdivision master plan, a General Plan amendment and a rezone. The final environmental impact report is out — you can read it on the town’s Web site, and elsewhere. And it comes before the Humboldt County Planning Commission on June 4, Bacik said.
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Comment / By Kathleen / Sept. 3, 2009, 9:28 a.m.
Well,as usual when big money and lesser values come into play things always take a turn for the worse. The evil take over is what killed Scotia and having grown up there in the golden years it is sad to see it sold off in parts so to speak. Oh well I’ll always think Scotia was the best place to grow up in and will always have wonderful memories of a community that really was a community. Kathleen Hill Finley.