Town planners OK riverside hotel

Truckee planners have recently approved a new hotel build, to be located on the southside of West River Street in downtown Truckee. Hotel Avery will be nearly 50,000 square feet and include 40 condo/hotel units, a restaurant, and underground parking. JMA Ventures, owners of Alpine Meadows and Homewood ski resorts, will develop the property, and offer the condos for sale to be used part-time, up to 90 days a year. The rest of the time the units will be rented out as hotel rooms. In the past, the area has remained vacant and undeveloped, being used primarily as unpermitted over-flow parking for downtown events. Once built, owners, guests, and shoppers alike will be able to use a connecting bike trail and sidewalk to access the hotel and restaurant and walk downtown safely.