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Mizpah Hotel Want to Put Tonopah Back on Map7 November 2000TONOPAH, Nevada – Nov. 7, 2000 – As reported by the Associated Press: “The owners of the Mizpah Hotel have big plans for the historic location - renewed gambling, a golf course, even a park that could help make this isolated central Nevada town more of a tourist destination. ”…The Mizpah stood as Nevada's tallest building from 1914 to 1929 and it remains the tallest hotel between Carson City and Las Vegas. ”…But for now, the old Mizpah is still reeling from it closure from August 1998 to August 1999. ”…The Mizpah's main restaurant, the Jack Dempsey Room, is only open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, the deli has limited hours, and slot machines were taken out last April after owners Bill and Delores Allison didn't get a gambling license to replace the slot route operator who had run the Mizpah's casino. ”The Allisons sold the Mizpah in mid-1998 but reacquired the five-story, 54-room hotel a year later in foreclosure when Equivest Holding Group of Tucson, Ariz., didn't make payments, [Mizpah general manager Mariann Cirelli] said. ”…The Allisons had owned the Mizpah for 16 years but had tired of running a hotel. They didn't think Equivest would close the Mizpah a month after buying it. ”But the hotel stayed closed until the Allisons returned, though Equivest reportedly did $100,000 worth of improvements. ”…The first step is to expand hours at the restaurants and revive gambling. The second phase calls for building an 18-hole golf course on the west side of town and a third phase would bring a park to town…” |