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Show All signals go for Provo hotel Construction of a S20 million hotel complex in Provos redevelopment area is expected to begin within a year. Daniel Fritz of Westwater Management Inc. told the Enterprise last week. Sacramento-base- d The firm recently presented Provo City with a $25,000 security check to formally close the development deal at 175 No. and It will be built on about three acres now owned by the city, Fritz said. 100 W. Fritz added the structure would include underground parking, 220 motel rooms, a convention facility accommodating 2500 people, seminar and audio-visu12-sto- ry al facilities for conventioneers. Apartment houses are also being considered for the complex, designed by Lee Knell and Associates of Salt Lake City. A local contractor is expected to be chosen for the project within four months, he added. Fritz said the property would be purchased from the city using Westwater and Provo Redevelopment Agency funds. The buildings on the property are vacant and will be razed before construction begins, he added. Westwater is a hotel management company with holdings in the western United States and Canada. Pants, jackets, skirts, and tops pykettes put-togeth- ers in red, white, Pykettes salutes warm, sunny days with red, white and blue. The trim navy blue belted iacket has white cord detail and top stitching. Its teamed with comfortable white pull-o- n pants with button tab front. Pykettes. It means versatility. Pants to go with shirts to go with jackets to go with skirts. All at a moderate and blue price. : ll BKEMBS. v 1 mm Look for the familiar Pykettes label in your local department store or specialty shop. Townsend and Bottum tie up JELCO purchase Controlling assets of the power plant division of JELCO Inc. and its name have been Townsold to Michigan-base- d send and Bottum Co. Curtis Allen, of western operations for Townsend, said the transaction did not involve stock, but vice-preside- nt only assets of the company. He declined to specify exactly what wras bought or for how much. Allen did say there would be no major managerial upsets at JELCO, but that their power plant construction capabilities and ours are now one. He added JELCO had become a division of Towmsend and will continue to build power plants, also Townsends priCurrent mary business. JELCO projects will remain JELCO projects, he said, but we will be the only people using that name now. It seems the line transmission construction and other portions of JELCOs business have been disbanded or trans- ferred to another corporation. W.H. Kibbie Inc. William Kibbic, major stockholder and chairman of the board before the Townsend purchase, re fused to comment on his new company or the Townsend transaction. J. P. Take a friend to lunch. Breed- love, president of JELCO, also declined comment. The Enterprise reported in December that JELCO was having trouble getting bonding when Seaboard Surety Co. refused to honor a $52 million bond on a transmission line project in Arizona. Later Travelers Indemnity Co. became entangled with JELCO in a dispute over who wrould control negotiations on claims for payment on a Wyoming power plant. Your car! In the time it takes you to have lunch we can complete minor repairs, oil changes, lube jobs and tune-up- s. Keep your car's motor running smooth. Send it for lunch to Chase. But Townsend and Bottum expects no further bonding problems with the company, Allen said. Townsend and Bottum, a family-owne- d company, with a track record stretching back more than 50 years in the power plant construction business, has been in Salt Lake for approximately two years as part of a western expansion program through its Ann Arbor, Mich, headquarters. In 1976, it was listed among the ten largest contractors in the country in the Engineering News Record. Clark BuickDatsun 78 Regal Luxury $159.1 8 mo. 3 Lease this car for 36 mos. at 159.18. Fully equipped Incl. air, tilt steering, AM-FStereo, Wire Wheel Covers M many others. Based on $6900.00 lease price over 36 mos. at $159.18 with a residual of 2800.00 on open end lease. 292-842- 61 next to old Valley Music Hall WnnHs Cross Exit of 25,000 to 50,000 sq. ft. of Prime Office Space! May be available for lease near the Downtown Area within 9 months. DEWAYNE HOPKINS -15 521-33- 00 322-11- 33 |