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Two days after being found inside of a car, dead from a gunshot wound, a man has been identified.

A place with so many memories, it makes me wish I had some myself.

A place with so many memories, it makes me wish I had some myself.

By Kathi O'Shea February 9, 2021 6:43 am KGMI Mike Davis BELLINGHAM, Wash. — Demolition has begun in the run-up to another improvement in the Samish Way Urban Village. Crews were spotted working at the former Cascade Inn at 208 North Samish Way Monday. Once the hotel and the neighboring Villa Inn are removed, the site will be home for a new five-story, 196-unit apartment building. Last October, City of Bellingham Senior Planner Darby Cowles told KGMI there’s been huge interest in the Samish Way area over the past few years. The transition of the site to apartments continues the short-ter...

The property has an address of 1404 Dickerson Pike and accommodates a building last home to 1950s-built Metro Motel (variously called The Villa Inn). The new owner of the 0.62-acre property is an LLC that includes Tyler Cauble, founder of locally based The Cauble Group and Parasol Management. The seller was Howdy Hospitality, which paid $873,000 for the property in mid-2019, according to Metro records. Neither party used a broker in the deal, Cauble said. The transaction follows a January deal in which the same LLC paid $3.8 million for a 2.97-acre unimproved adjacent property with a placeho...