Article: Main Place Mall owner wants to buy Fernbach parking ramp.

Byline: Sharon Linstedt

Jan. 19--The owner of Main Place Mall and the Liberty Building wants to buy the city-owned Fernbach Parking Ramp.

Patrick Hotung, general manager of the Main Place Liberty Group, is offering the city $12.4 million for the ramp, located directly behind his properties at 200 Pearl St. Hotung, who tried unsuccessfully to purchase the city's Main Place Ramp, located beneath his office/retail complex, said the Fernbach facility is a better fit with his current plans.

"It fits perfectly with our proposal to build a 600-car ramp at 50 Court St. If we owned Fernbach, we could just extend that building out and have a single, ...

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