Here's the part of Kelowna's Hotel Eldorado story you may not know | iNFOnews | Thompson-Okanagan's News Source
Image Credit: Contributed/CITY OF KELOWNA At that time, the hotel was was also in a different location, further to the south at 4519 Eldorado Rd. By the 1980s it had fallen on hard times, went bankrupt and the property was sold to a developer who was going to tear down the building, Jim Nixon told iNFOnews.ca. It was in 1988 when, almost by accident, Nixon bought the building for about $25,000 and saved it from demolition. “I had the land at Cook Road and was going to do a townhouse type of thing but I wanted a bar,” Nixon told iNFOnews.ca. “The whole thing just sort of happened at ...