OUR 114th Year
November 5, 2021
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Hotelier
buys historic
Gilbert Block
Building
Festive
fall
Khan is planning
a second fl oor hotel
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
PUMPKIN SPLASH, PET
PARADE AND TRUNK OR
TREAT DRAW CROWDS •
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MORE PHOTOS ON A4
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The 1,300-pound pumpkin ready to drop.
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All cameras on the pumpkin.
Hotelier Masudur Khan has purchased
the Gilbert Block Building downtown and
plans to renovate its second fl oor into a
hotel.
The two-story b uilding, on a little more
than three-quarters of an acre , sold to Sea-
side LLC in October for $3.1 million. The
sale includes the 38,000-square-foot build-
ing, including riverfront property, and a
parking lot on the east side of North Holl-
aday Drive.
The ground fl oor will continue to be
rented as stores.
Khan helms Seaside Lodging and owns
and manages hotels and restaurants in the
Pacifi c Northwest, including the Inn at Sea-
side, the River Inn, the Coast River Inn and
the 65-room Saltline Hotel. His wife oper-
ates the Gilbert Inn and the Inn at Haystack
Rock. Khan is the past chairman for the Ore-
gon Restaurant and Lodging Association.
“I’m happy to get the building in my
portfolio,” Khan said. “I think it has huge
potential.”
Other investors in the building include
engineer Mark Mead, hotel builder Ryan
Keck, of Pine Ridge Global, and Rhanman
Tahmidur, of Gilbert Hospitality LLC.
In the fi rst year, Khan plans to make
needed utility and roof repairs and develop
a more uniform, symmetrical design style.
“Our goal is to fulfi ll the building’s his-
torical value to create an experience for the
city, to bring customers and to enjoy the
building,” Khan said. “We will keep the
vibe — there’s no question about it.”
See Hotelier, Page A6
Employees
comply with
park district’s
vaccine policy
Jeff TerHar
This little guys went fl owing when the
pumpkin dropped.
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
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Jeff TerHar
LEFT: Boomer Barbosa, the voice of 94.9 FM, acted as emcee. RIGHT: Water, ducks and beavers fl y as the pumpkin hits the pool.
Ninety percent of the Sunset Empire
Park and Recreation District’s 57
employees have received COVID-19
vaccines, and the rest are complying with
the park district’s policy, which provides
exemptions for religious or medical rea-
sons. Employees who don’t comply will
be placed on unpaid leave and subject to
termination.
No park district employees have left
as a result of the vaccine policy, Skyler
Archibald, the park district’s executive
director, said after last Tuesday’s board
of directors meeting. “We have experi-
enced normal turnover but no departing
employees have indicated that it was due
to the vaccine policy,” he said.
Photos by Jeff TerHar
LEFT: Pumpkin after landing in the pool. RIGHT: Keith Chandler measures the distance of the ducks and beavers after the pumpkin drop.
Burly and the Bean introduces ‘roast your own’
By R.J. MARX
Seaside Signal
Hood to Coast polishes message
he said of his encounter in Italy. “We’re
pretty lucky to have it here.”
City Councilor Tita Montero said she
had a similar experience while trav-
By R.J. MARX
eling in London.
Seaside Signal
Closer to home, though, the
annual relay has a bit of an image
problem. Several residents took to
City Manager Mark Winstan-
social media after the event returned
ley was at a country inn in Tus-
from a pandemic hiatus in August to
cany when he met a family from
complain about rude runners and a
Dan Floyd
lack of virus protocols.
Oregon who had run Hood to
At a City Council meeting last
Coast.
“Even when you’re on vacation, you Monday, Dan Floyd, Hood to Coast’s
can run into people who have been to the chief operating offi cer, presented a check
same event you have been to two weeks for almost $29,000 to the city from the
ago. It’s really pretty amazing, the impact
See Hood to Coast, Page A3
that Hood to Coast has around the world,”
Approaching the last year
of a contract with Seaside
For a coff ee connoisseur,
the raw, unroasted bean are
where it all begins.
Justin
and
Vanessa
Boone, owners of Burly and
the Bean in Seaside, know
that. They’re opening up a
“roast your own” shop on
Avenue S, in the former site
of Mimi’s Flowers.
See Coff ee, Page A6
R.J. Marx
Justin Boone, owner of Burly and the Bean, at his new coff ee
roasting establishment.
See Mandate, Page A3