Akcess hoping to buy Chamber building

According to an article in this morning’s Oshkosh Northwestern local officials are working to come up with some means of helping to aid the Waterfront project proposed by Akcess Acquisition Group. To that end are steps to help make it easier to sell the building currently occupied by the Oshkosh Chamber of Commerce. Some local developers have previously entertained the idea of buying the building, but haven’t pursued it because of the possibility that the building would eventually be torn down as part of road realignment plans for Division Street. Tim Rikkers of Akcess announced when he appeared on Eye on Oshkosh two weeks ago that he is trying to assemble a group of buyers for the chamber building; that group would include Akcess. Once the building is purchased, it would allow the chamber to move into Rikkers’ proposed office building and get the whole Waterfront project back on track. Besides the class A office complex, Rikkers is working with the Supple restaurant group to develop a hotel and separate restaurant on the land along the Fox River, but has maintained that no construction will take place on any component of the project until the office building has enough tenants to break ground there.