Edward Lawton
I am building the 5 story hotel on IL Route 2 on the south side road that goes by the Ford Dealership and ends at the Brandywine Banquet Center. It is also down hill from the Magnuson Hotel ( A very BAD hotel that is now owned by an Indian (India) man who the county is concerned is allowing drug sales and is also a potential Fire risk due poor trash disposal!! My hope is that I will be able to open the Hotel and the 5 story Restaurant Complex by late summer or early fall of 2020. The restaurant on the ground floor will be called Paul Potts Manhattan Cafe and be open 24 hours a day and 365 days per year. Remember the Manhattan Cafe which was across the street from the Dixon Theatre on South Galena Ave. in downtown Dixon. I delivered dairy products there at 5am on Sunday mornings during our Junior and Senior years at DHS. The second floor of the restaurant complex will be mult-purpose room that will be able used for old Ronald Reagan movies, conferences, banquets, trade shows,etc.. The third floor will be for offices and conference rooms. The fourth floor will be used as a multi- ethnic restaurant that will have a different theme each day ( French, Spanish, Italian, German/Polish/Swiss, Chinese, Japanese, and of course Southern style American food and maybe even some really good Mexican food. The fifth floor restaurant will be called The Rainbow Room (named after the one in New York City which is located on the 65 floor of Rockefeller Center in downtown Manhattan). This will be the Finest Restaurant in the Northern third of Illinois outside of Chicago. Champagne will be served to all guests over 20 years of age with each Dinner. There will be a Sunday and Holiday Champagne Brunch Served in this Beautiful Restaurant. The two buildings will be the width of a city street apart and will have enclosed bridges on the second, third, fourth, and fifth floors of the two buildings. We will have 24 hour room service at the hotel (no liquor served between 1am- 10am daily). This is the first phase of 7-10 years plan that I and a group of investors and Banks are putting together to tell the story of two men from Illinois- Abraham Lincoln and RONALD Reagan. They were born 102 years apart/ Abe saved our country and Dutch saved the World!! When we fiiish this project, approximately 450-500 million dollars will be spent and should be worth eventually approximately One Billion Dollars! I have always loved history and what better way to tell people new to this area or too young to understand that both Abraham Lincoln and RONALD Reagan left there mark on this area( Sauk Valley Area). Several other people have also been a part of this area. Charles Walgreen , Father John Dixon, John Deere, Ray Kroc (the founder of McDonalds Restaurant Chain. The first McDonalds was in the suburbs of Chicago) (my Father knew Ray Kroc and purchased 5 Spindle Multi-mixers for our stores and restaurants that served our ice cream cones, sundaes,shakes and Malts). Long story and a Big Future Project. Edward Lawton, Labor Day 2019
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