So who is Fernando Palazuela? Now that suitor #2 Mr. Hults is yesterday's news, it's time to move on and web vet Sr. Palazuela.
He seems to have decent credentials from what I have briefly discovered. He also seems far more colorful than numbers 1 and 2. What can you find and what do you think?
Running a Google image search for our savior number 3 I find the following.
The picture is captioned "Palazuelo atop the Crillon. He plans to restore the area restored several buildings at the junction of Nicholas Avenues Piérola, Tacna and Wilson." [via Google Translator. I recommend surfing with Chrome when search him as it will offer translator for the Spanish pages]
From this article he sounds perfect for something like a Book Tower renovation. Could he possibly contemplate keeping and repurposing some of the existing Packard structures?
From the article:
Crillón: the slow awakening of a giant
The building that housed the Lima downtown landmark will reopen become an office complex. It is part of a larger project of Arts Express, the company that owns the property, to resurrect the area of Lima.
"The Crillon was the largest hotel in Peru. If the Sheraton, Marriott or Westin are now 280, 300 rooms at most, the Crillon had more than 600. Currently is not much point in keeping a hotel of that size in the center of Lima, so we have turned everything into offices, "says Palazuelo. But that's not all: the side of the former hotel, in a land occupied by a house that for years has only the facade, will build a new 20-storey third tower. They are still deciding whether offices or apartments built there.
Whenever Arts Express has purchased a building in the historic center has been for the interest you have felt for its architecture and its history. In the case of Crillon has been no different. And, as a tribute to all the memory that the building kept inside, they will install a small museum on the right of the entrance. There you can see some of the dishes from the legendary establishment, restaurant menu cards hotel and Sky Room, posters adorned the walls and pictures-photos-many illustrious people who went through there.
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