Tacky to advertise demo in historic district

[sheclown]

[acme54321]

LOL nice ripoff of the waste management logo.

[iloveionia]

WOW. 
Anyone in the know, know this is directed to Springfield.
It is perplexing to me that indicating that a demolition will get liens forgiven?
1.  Is this what the city does?
2.  My understanding that liens stayed with the property, but those nasty rolling fines can be negotiated.  Correct?
3.  Comment: someone paid this company to send this letter out to Springfielders with condemned homes. 

[AmyLynne]

As someone looking at it from the outside...so please don't bash me for it, but the way I look at the flyer is that they are pushing more of the waste removel / dumpster angle of their bussiness and not really the demo portion.



But then I am a glass half full kind of girl!!

[iloveionia]

:-)
This was mailed to Spfld condemned property owners.
In the bigger picture, the underlying message is old homes (particularly those in Spfld) belong in a dumpster.

[Springfielder]

This was mailed to Spfld condemned property owners. In the bigger picture, the underlying message is old homes (particularly those in Spfld) belong in a dumpster.

Face value, it does look like they're just trying to drum up business with waste removal...but to mail it to those on the condemned list...hmmm, wonder who in the city is getting some kind of kick back for giving that info to them.... 

[ChriswUfGator]

WOW. 
Anyone in the know, know this is directed to Springfield.
It is perplexing to me that indicating that a demolition will get liens forgiven?
1.  Is this what the city does?
2.  My understanding that liens stayed with the property, but those nasty rolling fines can be negotiated.  Correct?
3.  Comment: someone paid this company to send this letter out to Springfielders with condemned homes. 

Well obviously COJ must have floated some kind of amnesty program for the forgiveness of the liens that was contingent on tearing the house down. The letter makes that clear. I have never heard of the city offering that program, we should get to the bottom of it. But clearly COJ was also releasing the addresses and owners' names for the condemned / fined properties or Arwood wouldn't have known who to mail these advertisements to. Clearly nobody was very interested in any kind of preservation on this one.

[ChriswUfGator]

This was mailed to Spfld condemned property owners. In the bigger picture, the underlying message is old homes (particularly those in Spfld) belong in a dumpster.

Face value, it does look like they're just trying to drum up business with waste removal...but to mail it to those on the condemned list...hmmm, wonder who in the city is getting some kind of kick back for giving that info to them.... 

Their company name is "Arwood Waste Removal and Demolition" and though they don't specifically describe the service they are marketing in this flyer, I think it's pretty clear that as between the two options it's clearly the latter. These were mailed to the owners of condemned properties, the context seems pretty darn clear to me...

[Timkin]

:-)
This was mailed to Spfld condemned property owners.
In the bigger picture, the underlying message is old homes (particularly those in Spfld) belong in a dumpster.

I was going to say    This is Jacksonville .. If it is historic or in disrepair , it is in danger.   I do not see that flyer in my neighborhood anywhere.   Looks  deliberately targeted to the condemned homes.

[Debbie Thompson]

Chris, the city offered an abatement program for houses with fines if you do the repairs. I don't remember the details..I'd have to look it up on coj.net...but I remember reading about the program in the paper.