Fairbanks building awaits demolition… or revitalization?

A group of Fairbanks city leaders are working to find money to demolish the Polaris building. They’ve grown frustrated awaiting action on the deteriorating downtown high rise.
Polaris building. Photo: Dan Bross/KUAC.
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Anchorage real estate developer Marc Marlow has been trying for over a decade to secure financing to renovate the long abandoned 1950s Polaris Hotel into apartments, and city council member David Pruhs is through waiting.
“We should just knock it down and