By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
ABILENE - The former Brookville Hotel property at Abilene is scheduled for a bank foreclosure sale next week.
The historic restaurant, which moved from Brookville to north of Interstate 70 at Abilene in 1999, is scheduled to be sold at 10 a.m. Monday in the new lobby of the Dickinson County Courthouse, located at 109 E. First Street, according to information from Kathy Hageman, Dickinson County public information coordinator.
The Brookville Hotel had ceased being a hotel and focused on its famous chicken dinners long before it moved to Abilene.
The sale was ordered by Dickinson County District Court on behalf of Pinnacle Bank, Hageman noted in a release. According to the legal notice, the order requires the restaurant property to be sold during a public auction to the "highest and best bidder for cash in hand."
Although the sale is a foreclosure sale and not a tax sale, taxes owed to Dickinson County on the property from 2016 to Monday are $200,053.90, according to Dickinson County Treasurer Leah Hern.
Additionally, the appraised value of the Brookville Hotel property is $636,330.