Back In The Real Estate Business
Printed From: MiddletownUSA.com
Category: Middletown City Government
Forum Name: Community Revitalization
Forum Description: Middletown Community Revitalization News
URL: http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5096
Printed Date: May 13 2024 at 9:09pm
Topic: Back In The Real Estate Business
Posted By: VietVet
Subject: Back In The Real Estate Business
Date Posted: Mar 05 2013 at 6:18am
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Today's Journal... MIDDLETOWN City considers park and ride location MIDDLETOWN — The city is looking to create a park and ride location downtown, but it will need to purchase one property and lease another. Council will consider legislation tonight — though a vote is not expected until March 19 — to purchase property at 42 N. Main St. for $20,000, and then lease the adjacent property, owned by Wausau Paper, for a $1 a year, according to Denise Hamet, the city’s economic development director. SO, WE'RE BACK IN THE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS AGAIN EHH? LEASE THE PROPERTY FOR A DOLLAR A YEAR TO WHOM? WHAT, NO OTHER VACANT LOTS DOWNTOWN ALREADY OWNED BY THE CITY TO PLACE THIS SO-CALLED "PARK AND RIDE"? GOTTA BE THERE AND NOWHERE ELSE? FROM WHAT FUND WOULD THIS 20 GRAND COME FROM? CAN'T THEY USE THE CURRENT BUS TERMINAL AND SURROUNDING PARKING LOT FOR THIS? AND....THEY ARE TEARING DOWN ANOTHER BUILDING TO CREATE MORE GREEN SPACE.....IMAGINE THAT.  THEY LOVE TO DEMO THINGS, DON'T THEY.The project, Hamet said, “creates the opportunity to leverage city resources.” EXACTLY WHAT DOES "LEVERAGE CITY RESOURCES" MEAN? CLEVER LITTLE PHRASE WITH NO MEANING. “The marketing of the Manchester combined with the growth of Cincinnati State and other downtown facilities is creating more demand for parking,” Hamet said YEAH, IT'S A PROVERBIAL TRAFFIC JAM DOWN THERE NOW WITH ALL THE NEW ACTIVITY HAMET.  GOTTA HAVE MORE PARKING FOR A HOTEL THAT HASN'T HAD A SERIOUS PURCHASER IN DECADES AND WOULD COST MORE THAN IT'S WORTH TO REHAB. GOTTA HAVE MORE PARKING FOR THE 300 OR SO ACTUALLY ATTENDING CLASS AT CS AND NOT ON-LINE, NOWHERE TO BE FOUND IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA. WHAT EMBELLISHMENT. MERCY. The property was appraised in 2012 for $26,230, which is less than half of its appraised value in 2010 WHAT A DEAL!!! City staff had been discussing potentially demolishing some city-owned buildings for additional downtown parking WIDE OPEN SPACES DOWN THERE AND THEY STILL WANT TO KNOCK DOWN MORE BUILDINGS. KEEP IT UP AND THERE'LL BE NOTHING DOWN THERE BUT THE LIBERTY, PAC, BEAU VERRE AND CS. EVERYTHING ELSE WILL BE LEVELED. NICE CONCEPT. ADDITIONAL PARKING? FOR WHAT REASON? IS THERE THAT MANY PEOPLE WHO GO DOWNTOWN TO WARRANT THIS? I LIKE JOURNAL STORIES SUCH AS THIS. ALWAYS PROVIDES SOME EARLY MORNING HUMOR. LIKE TO SEE THE NEWEST ATTEMPTS TO RATIONALIZE THEIR ACTIONS. ------------- I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over. |
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Posted By: Middletown29
Date Posted: Mar 05 2013 at 6:49am
| Crazy |
Posted By: Bill
Date Posted: Mar 05 2013 at 9:05am
| Park and ride...to where? |
Posted By: ktf1179
Date Posted: Mar 05 2013 at 9:18am
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You mean Park Ride, and get your stuff stolen from your car service
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Posted By: spiderjohn
Date Posted: Mar 05 2013 at 9:28am
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Park where and ride to where? It's not like the city roads and parking lots are jammed. Simply ride to where you want to go. As mentioned--who will guard the parking lot? I don't know anyone who was aware of or understands this one. Should be one interesting/entertaining meeting this evening. The city bus terminal lot sits empty daily, with bus lines operating. Word now is that the location is not considered "downtown". ? |
Posted By: Bill
Date Posted: Mar 05 2013 at 10:02am
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In light of the faux gas lights that will soon appear on S. Main, perhaps the Park and Ride refers to parking your car and then taking a horse & buggy ride through downtown. Whether it's downtown demo "visions", the Sorg Opera plans, or the Sorg Mansion, the one common theme in all this mularkey is that everyone wants to go from A to Z but without the money to do it.
This town is po'.
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Posted By: LMAO
Date Posted: Mar 05 2013 at 10:07am
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Weatherwax work session However, after July 1, the course received “almost no water,” Adkins said, causing playing conditions to deteriorate. A water meter for irrigation needed replaced, but it was replaced with a smaller meter and it was not noticed until after word spread about the poor conditions, he said DUHHHHHHHHHHHH........And we pay these people for? |
Posted By: over the hill
Date Posted: Mar 05 2013 at 10:40am
| Then get the people out there to change it at NO additional cost. DUH!!!oh, wait, don't tell me it's our fault! Because if it is...... |
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Mar 05 2013 at 11:11am
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So, the "word spread" to all of the area golfers "about the poor conditions"...but the people that RUN THE PLACE didn't happen to notice it until it was too late??? Hmm... ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |