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CLOSE The Americana Lodge in downtown Redding , California, closed in January after hundreds of alleged code and safety violations , and now The Hignell Companies hopes to repurpose the building. Wochit Architectural renderings of the proposed remodeling project to turn the closed Americana Lodge into The Lofts. (Photo: Russell Studio) Plans to convert the shuttered Americana Lodge in downtown Redding to apartments come before the city Wednesday afternoon . The project has been hailed as a catalyst for the area since The Hignell Companies of Chico announced it was purchasing the former motel late last year. Hignell would transform the property between Pine and Market streets into 24 one-bedroom and 20 studio apartment units that would average between 400 and 500 square feet of floor space. At least four of the apartments would be set aside for very-low and low-income renters. The Redding Board of Administrative Review will consider Hignell’s site development permit application ...

Contemporary design for Americana... REDDING, Calif. - Plans to renovate the Americana Lodge in downtown Redding and replace it with modern multi-family apartments are underway. The architect and neighboring businesses hope this will help change the face of downtown. The plan is to keep the overall structure, but restore it. Broken and boarded up windows are what's left of the Americana Lodge on Pine Street since it was shut down in January. Redding Architect Ryan Russell is working with the Hignell Companies to take on the project. "We plan to call it The Lofts, and really reinvent what the space currently is and create a desirable apartment complex , essentially, that will house and bring positive influence to downtown," Russell said. It will be geared towards student housing. Co- Owner Denise Craig of Boardmart Snow Surf & Skate is next to the Americana, and said she's noticed less loitering since the hotel was closed. "The clientele in the last fiv...