Guess who is working on the YMCA apartment project? I will give you one guess . . . (Item #1)
One of the largest facade handouts ever. I don’t have a problem with helping downtown and city wide businesses with preserving their structures, where I don’t agree is handouts. I think it should be given with a low interest or zero interest loan, but not a handout.
How’s that Sid’s facade working out?
The Y is used by the general population and a little help is warranted. Facade work is outside appearance. That’s a prominent corner. That area has become an LA like Bario. This money would have been better spent on area police patrols if not gumshoe beat cops.
I believe the City’s Right of Way includes the façade of a building. In that spirit, this is not a handout. The City wants a nice and historic façade, the City owns the façade, the City helps pay for the façade.
The city owns the façade . . . that line cracks me up every time someone from the city says that. Unlike the boulevard in front of my home, the façade is attached to the building. The city can say whatever they want to about owning the façade, it’s just legal mumbo jumbo to justify the handout.
What about Sids?
Seems a bit shady.
Texaco Super Service Station
330 S. 1st Avenue
Epstein Property Management
$50,000
2011 — Complete
If the city owns facades, a lot of women are due free face lifts.
driving past the Y tonight, it looks pretty good. Its the frickn Argus Leader building that looks like crap, give them a facade face lift.