Plans are being made to build more apartments and a new hotel in downtown Moline. Tuesday night the city council will be asked to approve several projects.
Planning and Development Director, Ray Forsythe, says one proposal would convert the upper floors of the Chase Bank Building into 31 apartments, while another would convert the Fifth Avenue Building into what he calls a "high end, full service hotel."
Both projects are in Moline's new downtown tax increment financing (tif) district.
The Chase Building conversion is project of the Amin Group and Russell Construction, while Heart of America is planning the new, 105 room hotel.
Also on the agenda is a request by city staff to negotiate a purchase agreement with Gorman and Company to buy and re-develop the Spiegel Building next to the I-74 bridge.
Forsythe says Gorman plans to convert it into 28 apartments and some commercial space.
