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eastbaytimes wrote on the message board: > SAN PABLO — Moose Lodge No. 550, a fixture of the city’s main > commercial strip for more than four decades, is being sold to the > owners of the adjacent San Pablo Lytton Casino for an undisclosed > price. > > The lodge plans to move to the current site of the Boys & Girls Club > of El Sobrante, provided a tentative deal to buy that property closes > as expected in about three months, Moose Lodge administrator Larry > Jordan said Friday. > > The El Sobrante site, at 4660 Appian Way, consists of three lots, and > the lodge plans to lease back part of it to the Boys & Girls Club, he > said. > > As for the sale of the current lodge site, at 13233 San Pablo Ave., to > the casino, “that deal has gone through,” Jordan said. The lodge > has committed to vacating the premises by March 26, he said. The > casino told him it intends to use the site for parking, he added. > > The 1.7-acre site, containing the Moose Lodge building and ample > surrounding parking, is immediately south of the casino’s main > entrance. > > A guard at the casino on Friday said no one in the casino > administration office would be available for comment. The casino is > owned by the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians. > > Boys & Girls Club officials could not immediately be reached Friday. > > The casino’s purchase of the Moose Lodge site has been a long time > coming. The lodge explored the idea of selling the property in 2004, > but said it needed to secure another premises in order to move. > > The El Sobrante location, assuming the transaction with the Boys & > Girls Club closes, would be in fairly convenient proximity to > Interstate 80, said past administrator M. Khan. Members come from as > far away as Fairfield, Khan said, adding that Moose Lodge 550 is > “the most diverse of any Moose Lodge in the U.S.” > > The sale of the Moose Lodge property is the latest in what have been > busy recent times for real estate surrounding the casino. > > The shuttered Doctors Medical Center and the remaining 8.3 acres of > its campus are under contract to be sold to Davis-based Royal Guest > Hotels for $13.5 million. Two years ago, the West Contra Costa > Healthcare District, which owns the hospital, explored the possibility > of selling the campus to the Lytton Band. > > Two years ago, the Lytton Band paid $4.6 million upfront for an > easement on a 2.5-acre slice of the campus adjacent to the casino that > it uses for parking. Last year, the health care district sold the > parking lot to San Pablo, with the Lytton easement remaining in > effect. > > Also last year, the district sold two medical office buildings and a > residential condominium on Vale Road to San Pablo. > > The tribe also owns an office building a short distance south of the > casino. > > http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2016/03/11/san-pablo-lytton-casino-buys-adjacent-moose-lodge-property/
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