Potential owner talks about plans for Antlers

he certainly does, heather and rana. the deal still has to close in the next sixty days – and we don’t how much the hotel will sell for. but it’s a big change for a building, which was scarily close to foreclosure just two years ago. perry sanders isn’t interested in owning a hotel – but a piece of history. 0:21 i always loved the fabulous views, the broad scenery of downtown and i just had a longtime love of the hotel. a longtime love for a hotel that’s been around a long time. 01:12 it’s always been one of the major tourist attractions of the area the antlers hotel first opened in 1883 – when the land and some constructio n costs were donated by general william jackson palmer. 15 years later, it burned to the ground, it was rebuilt and reopened in 1901. 3:35 it was a part of the colorado springs economy, and it’s a part of the colorado springs image. images historians have kept and preserved – some for over a hundred years. sanders knows something about restoring hotels. he purchased 8?? the miningz? zs the mining exchange and renovated it into an upscale hotel. he’s =? hoping to pull=9?? that off again. 2:51 we intend to retrofit this hotel. the rooms, which is really the aprt that needs retrofitting by our examination of it. hoping to maintain the antlers as a springs icon for another hundred years. to open the antlers in the 1800s it cost about 125- thousand dollars – two years ago when the hotel faced foreclosure, it sold for over 30-million. live downtown, gm, nc 13.