Article: Builder resumes role in deal for downtown hotel. (Calmark Holding Corp.; Pacific Basin Plaza; after bankruptcy of subsidiary Northview Corp.)

Builder resumes role in deal for downtown hotel

Northview Corp., a subsidiary of Uri Sheinbaum's Calmark Holding Corp., last week declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, unable to pay ground rents on at least two of the 40-odd Vagabond Inn motels it owns and operates, including one in Woodland Hills.

Northview, bought by Sheinbaum's West Los Angeles-based Calmark in late 1987, has been in default on $100 million of Drexel Burnham Lambert-underwritten junk bonds since September.

Despite not paying bondholders $6.5 million in interest, the bankruptcy filing was precipitated last week when Northview was unable to muster $635,000 in ground lease payments to ...

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