A statewide hotel chain is “very serious” about buying Main Street property to build a 50-room hotel, but Haines Borough leaders will have to decide whether they want to sell the 1.21-acre lot the company wants for its site.

Aspen Management LLC submitted an application in July to purchase two lots of the old primary school land bordering Main Street at Fifth Avenue. The company is proposing to build a two-story hotel with 49 to…