Hotel ads, booking sites and guest reviews. Tourists staying in rooms meant for low-cost housing. Yet the city’s Housing Department has cited few landlords for violating the residential hotel law.
Peoria s Friendly Valley Tavern is closing after 80 years pjstar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pjstar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Barb Castle, 69, is selling the place after 27-plus years of ownership. It s exciting, but really bittersweet, she said. I ve watched people here for 27 years. I ve watched some of them grow up. I m really going to miss the people.
The site is being purchased by Clay Dobelstein, proprietor of Country Club BBQ in West Peoria and the owner of multiple Peoria entertainment properties. The business is being bought by Jake Fleshman, 38, a Bradley University graduate who works in account management. Not long ago, he lived near Castle s. This was my little sneak-away neighborhood bar, he said with a smile.
Managing the place will be Cam Brewer, 38, who used to run Cam s, a club at the same site as the current Country Club BBQ. Brewer, Fleshman and Dobelstein are all friends who recently decided to try their hand as the latest stewards of Castle s. They plan no significant changes.
Barb Castle, 69, is selling the place after 27-plus years of ownership. It s exciting, but really bittersweet, she said. I ve watched people here for 27 years. I ve watched some of them grow up. I m really going to miss the people.
The site is being purchased by Clay Dobelstein, proprietor of Country Club BBQ in West Peoria and the owner of multiple Peoria entertainment properties. The business is being bought by Jake Fleshman, 38, a Bradley University graduate who works in account management. Not long ago, he lived near Castle s. This was my little sneak-away neighborhood bar, he said with a smile.
Managing the place will be Cam Brewer, 38, who used to run Cam s, a club at the same site as the current County Club BBQ. Brewer, Fleshman and Dobelstein are all friends who recently decided to try their hand as the latest stewards of Castle s. They plan no significant changes.