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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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Man, we've got money out the wazzou for tearing down buildings, but not a penny for street repairs, right? We're gonna have the best kept green space/empty lots around, as we continue to drive on the crumbling roads and avoiding the frame bending potholes. Why so much focus on old buildings and not one eye on the roads city officials? Where are your priorities? Try spreading them out in more equal proportions. Guess they don't have the ability to look at more than one thing at a time.
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I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.
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409
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The crane was disassembled and shipped out yesterday.
Apparently they will finish the north building before starting on the south. |
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over the hill
MUSA Citizen Joined: Oct 19 2012 Location: middletown Status: Offline Points: 952 |
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I thought they were suppose to be spraying down the dust at the Orman site. I drove by there yesterday and dust was flying everywhere. Hope it's not "contaminated" with asbestas.
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bumper
MUSA Citizen Joined: Feb 01 2010 Location: over here Status: Offline Points: 307 |
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oh no its blowing all over the well field this is gonna cost ya...
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409
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 27 2009 Status: Offline Points: 1014 |
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The crane is back. They opened a hole in the roof of the
south building and dropped in a Bobcat to clean it out. |
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409
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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I'm getting excited that we are getting so close to yet another area of "Green Space" in the downtown area. Will allow us to go down there and experience all the ........openness and , you know, green space. Judith must be getting so excited as another building topples and we get closer to Desolation Row. I suggest a photo op with the Mayor and civic leaders with Hissoner, Lawrence Mulligan reading yet another proclamation making this "Middletown Green Space/Parking Lot Day" at the next council meeting. Give the Journal another opportunity to soak up the valuable information supplied by the city as they do their "one-sided" reporting. What a treat!!!
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I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.
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Bill
MUSA Citizen Joined: Nov 04 2009 Status: Offline Points: 710 |
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Other than cost, how can you make any sensible complaint about demolishing this eyesore? Pick your battles better, Vet.
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VietVet
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Agree with you Bill. Wasn't picking a battle here. Just trying to say that they are dam good at knocking them down and creating alot of "nothingness". Just not good at replacing the empty lot with something of use. Nothing wrong with knocking down this thing. When was the last time you saw something replace what was removed? |
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I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.
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Bill
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Unfortunately it may take 10 or 20 years for some of this greenspace to be used for anything. We can just hope it is put to best use.
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Bill - Other than cost, how can you make any sensible complaint about demolishing this eyesore? Pick your battles better, Vet. |
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409
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Rhodes
MUSA Resident Joined: Jun 18 2010 Status: Offline Points: 209 |
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I got to see some of the demo work today. I was a little surprised the city can't be more creative with their demolition dreams. I can totally understand demolishing the first section. It was a fire trap. It fell apart like shredded paper. This last section, not so much. Even the roof on this last section is concrete rebar. In other words, they could have parked cars and numerous other things on that roof, that's how strong the building is. It took them all day just to tear down that back little corner. I guarantee this is the majority of the demolition costs.
Now if I was in charge, what I would have done is only demolished the weaker sections, which would have opened up a large parking lot for this last section, which was built like a bomb shelter. I'll go so far as to bet the demo costs of this last section is 70% of the bid amount approved. So with the weak sections gone, huge new parking lot, and this leftover warehouse space, I would have left it on the back burner until the city could find someone to use that space as a ...... yes, a warehouse! Some business would have eventually purchased the remaining section. There is always a need for warehouse space. If not now, then down the road. I would be embarrassed to be responsible for this type of outcome. It would show I was lacking.
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AKBobby
MUSA Resident Joined: May 18 2009 Location: Middletown, OH Status: Offline Points: 103 |
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How bout the court of appeals across from the city building? That's a pretty nice building. I agree the city could bring in more business but I am all for tearing down old abandoned eyesores. Where Swallens used to be looks so much nicer now even though its green space.
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MUSA Citizen Joined: Oct 19 2012 Location: middletown Status: Offline Points: 952 |
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409 you have done a wonderful job with all the pictures of the orman building. I for one have enjoyed seeing progress in getting it down.
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ktf1179
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Awesome job 409. I can't wait to drive past the city building soon and not see that building. Granted I love to keep old buildings and architecture this one would have been way to expensive to modernize.
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Thanx!
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