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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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It is a political giveaway. |
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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"The Art Central Foundation has leased the former Masonic Temple Building since it set up a downtown location several years ago." |
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Hmmm…The ink wasn’t even dry on the deeds where the City had purchased all these properties from the estate that the Middletown Historical Society requested the Bank One building and Art Central requested the |
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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"So many complaints on this forum about Section 8......"
With good reason, digger-2, with good reason. The negatives concerning Section 8 have been documented in other posts on this forum. They overwhelm the positives. |
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Pacman
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jun 02 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2612 |
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Digger,
All previous post above spoke of the give-aways of these buildings purchased with taxpayer funds. Let me ask you this digger are you a landlord and do you live in Middletown? LH4 seems to refuse to answer these questions. Maybe he's afraid we might find out who he is. Pacman |
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digger-2
MUSA Immigrant Joined: Oct 18 2012 Status: Offline Points: 33 |
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So many complaints on this forum about Section 8 and anyone who owns rental properties.......................
What about the Art Central Foundation giveaway plus other taxpayer-funded fiascos such as PAC, C-State, S. Main St. and the former downtown, extravagant NSP real estate ventures, etc., etc.? If landlords wasted money like the City Manager and the Community Development Prosecutor they be shortly out of business! |
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over the hill
MUSA Citizen Joined: Oct 19 2012 Location: middletown Status: Offline Points: 952 |
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we want JOBS!!!!!
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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So now, with this and the old senior center building, the city's building purchases with taxpayer money is in the phase of giving the properties away. Wonder if the Thatcher building purchases (the banks) not used by Cinn. State will also be given away in the future?
"The city purchased the former Masonic Temple, the former CG&E; Bank One and First National buildings for $300,000 in 2010. In February 2011, the city purchased the former Manchester Inn & Conference Center for $175,000." "The city sold the former CG&E; building and donated the former senior center for $200,000 earlier this year for Cincinnati State Middletown developer Higher Education Partners" THE GREAT BUILDING GIVEAWAY!!!!! GET YOURS WHILE THEY'RE AVAILABLE FOLKS! GREAT IDEA.....BUY 'EM, HOPE YOU CAN GET YOUR MONEY BACK AND WHEN YOU CAN'T.....GIVE 'EM AWAY!!! AND THE HITS JUST KEEP ON COMING IN THIS TOWN FOR THE TAXPAYER AS THEY ARE STIFFED AGAIN. INCREDIBLE. “We believe that our downtown should be focused on the arts, education and entertainment,” said City Manager Judy Gilleland. “The Art Central Foundation fits well within our vision for downtown.” GILLELAND AND OTHERS JUST DON'T GET IT DO THEY? THIS THEME DOESN'T APPEAL TO THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN......AND SHE AND THE REST OF THE 5% OF THIS TOWN DON'T CARE. AMAZING ATTITUDE TOWARD THE CITIZENS. "Wittman said she feels the eight-year-old organization has “had a large part in downtown’s revitalization efforts.” “Our mission is making arts accessible to everybody downtown,” she said LOOKS LIKE WITTMAN DOESN'T HAVE A CLUE WHAT THE MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN ARE INTERESTED IN EITHER. THESE ARTZY PEOPLE ARE KINDA WRAPPED UP IN THEIR OWN LITTLE WORLD AREN'T THEY? HINT......WE DON'T WANT ONLY THE ARTS, WE WANT A DIVERSITY OF SHOPPING THAT APPEALS TO THE MASSES. |
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TonyB
MUSA Citizen Joined: Jan 12 2011 Location: Middletown, OH Status: Offline Points: 631 |
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If the building didn't have much value, why did the city buy it? Oh yeah, I remember now, it was to CONTROL what happens in the downtown area. I don't have a problem with the Arts Central Foundation controlling the building; they were leasing it. I have a real problem with the city giving away real estate that they never should have bought in the first place.
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Middletown29
MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 30 2011 Status: Offline Points: 474 |
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It is a political giveaway.
The problem is the Art Central group has no money. The Moormans wanted to buy the building but Gilliland would not sell it. |
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spiderjohn
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jul 01 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2749 |
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So--we are once again focusing on "arts" with another expensive property purchase being given away to a private entity.
The part I ? is the ACF director's statement that the first floor will be turned into a restaurant or retail entity. Doesn't sound much like "arts" does it? More taxpayer subsidized private business in that favored area, creating an issue about publicv-0subsidized private business competing with non-subsidized private businesses. Sour grapes?
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Mike_Presta
MUSA Council Joined: Apr 20 2008 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3483 |
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Now that downtown is supposedly "booming", and businesses are clamoring to locate there, shouldn't the city at least TRY to sell this (and other) city-owned structures to try to recoup some of the taxpayer funds that have been expended there???
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“Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012
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SupportMiddletown
MUSA Resident Joined: Nov 01 2009 Status: Offline Points: 181 |
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The building would cost a couple hundred thousand to demolish and would not hold very many parkings space, so the city is really giving away something that doesn't have much value anyway.
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LMAO
MUSA Citizen Joined: Oct 28 2009 Location: Middletucky Status: Offline Points: 468 |
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Gilleland said it’s “very important” the city preserves the downtown’s historic structures, such as the Masonic Arts Building, and “if we can return a historic structure to productive use, that’s a win-win for everyone. Earth to Judy,Wake the hell Up!!!!!Win-win for the crybabys on South Main.When will we read that you Sh*T out money to fund there pretty lights? The city purchased the former Masonic Temple, the former CG&E; Bank One and First National buildings for $300,000 in 2010. In February 2011, the city purchased the former Manchester Inn & Conference Center for $175,000. |
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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City may donate building to Art Central Foundation
Staff Writer MIDDLETOWN — City council is expected to hold the first of two readings Nov. 6 that will donate the former Masonic Temple Building, also known as the Temple Arts Building, to the Art Central Foundation. The Art Central Foundation has leased the former Masonic Temple Building since it set up a downtown location several years ago. “We believe that our downtown should be focused on the arts, education and entertainment,” said City Manager Judy Gilleland. “The Art Central Foundation fits well within our vision for downtown.” Art Central Foundation president Sue Wittman said immediate plans are to fix a gutter issue in the rear of the building and to rent the first floor to a retail or restaurant business. An endowment is going to be formed to help with building maintenance and operations, and this year’s foundation art auction and wine tasting — which is set for 6 to 9 p.m. today at Forest Hills Country Club, 791 Fourth St. — will help with that, she said. The $30 admission price will allow patrons to bid on art and taste more than a dozen French wines. The event will be catered by Brio’s at The Greene in Beavercreek and Mockingbird Cafe and @ the Square in downtown Middletown. There will be about 14 types of French wine to taste About $5,000 is raised annually, Wittman said . “We’re hoping that with some of the donations we’ve got, we’ll exceed that this year,” she said. Gilleland said it’s “very important” the city preserves the downtown’s historic structures, such as the Masonic Arts Building, and “if we can return a historic structure to productive use, that’s a win-win for everyone. Wittman said she feels the eight-year-old organization has “had a large part in downtown’s revitalization efforts.” “Our mission is making arts accessible to everybody downtown,” she said. The city purchased the former Masonic Temple, the former CG&E; Bank One and First National buildings for $300,000 in 2010. In February 2011, the city purchased the former Manchester Inn & Conference Center for $175,000. The city sold the former CG&E; building and donated the former senior center for $200,000 earlier this year for Cincinnati State Middletown developer Higher Education Partners. |
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