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House Demolished for new Kent State Hotel

Site is now clear for 95-room, three-story hotel in downtown Kent

Yet another building has succumbed to a wrecking crew to make way for downtown Kent's revival.

The Kent State University Foundation demolished the house at 218 E. Erie St. downtown to clear the site for the new .

Kent State is building the hotel with Columbus hotelier The Pizzuti Companies, and it is expected to open late in 2012 when the new opens.

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Don Wheat, vice president for public and private projects for Pizzuti, said in a previous interview the hotel plans need one final blessing from the university foundation, and they expect to get that this month.

"At that point, we're off to the races," he said. "We're hoping to start with some of the earlier construction late this summer."

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