With a change of administrations pending, there’s no longer interest among Springfield aldermen to act quickly to turn the Wyndham hotel downtown into a hybrid hotel / apartment house. And that’s frustrating to hotel owner Al Rajabi.

“This town is still such a lovely town. It has a lot of potential. But you guys are losing population. Your youth is moving out of town. And a $58 million development is not something that’s small. It’s huge. And during this whole election thing, my name, my company’s name, my employees,” Rajabi told aldermen Wednesday, “were all like a boxing ring. It just wasn’t nice. This isn’t right.”

The latest proposal to save the troubled hotel is to convert part of it into 200 apartments, leaving 250 hotel rooms. The deal for more than $18 million, and the hotel property becoming a “targeted” tax increment finance” district, will fall to Tuesday’s election winner, city treasurer Misty Buscher.