City officials will consider selling land for $3.3 million that would be slated for a hotel with up to 140 rooms as part of the plan to revamp the city’s major corridors, Edinger Avenue and Beach Boulevard.

At a special meeting on Friday, City Council members will consider selling the property at 7872 Edinger Ave. to Campbell Lodging to build a hotel on the site. The nearly two-acre site is mostly vacant but is home to Big O Tires, which would need to be demolished and the site cleaned up if the sale is approved.

When the city released its plans to revamp the corridor, officials agreed that one or two hotels were needed in the area to increase property, sales and transient occupancy taxes and remove blight in the area.

In June 2010 the city entered an agreement with Ayres hotel for the site. The hotel company and the city entered a three-month negotiating period but the deal apparently fell through.

According to the city report, the city could not “come to terms” with bidders for the property.

Campbell Lodging has such hotels as Holiday Inn Express, Hampton Inn & Suites, Marriot Springhill Suites and Hilton Garden Inn.

As part of the agreement, a hotel would have to be built within a year.

Contact the writer: 714-796-7953 or jfletcher@ocregister.com

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