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Article: Old Cockatoo Inn may be history
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- June 6, 2004
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Part of Hawthorne's venerable but vacant and crumbling Cockatoo
Inn would be demolished and part preserved under plans that a pair of
local developers have filed at City Hall.
Inglewood-based developers Mohammad Pournamdari and David Golban
initially wanted to save the entire 220-room, two-building complex
southeast of Hawthorne Boulevard and Imperial Highway, records show,
but a study concluded that would be financially unfeasible. The
company that performed the economic analysis, Fowler & Spurrier
Consulting of Biloxi, Miss., recommended restoring 100 rooms, razing
127 and building 200 new ones to create a 300-room hotel that would
bear a nationally known name.
The study also suggested ...