Historic Springfield Demolition COA signed today: 1647 Pearl

[Debbie Thompson]

Preach it, Strider!  It'an HISTORIC district, for crying out loud!  Why would you tear down historic homes?  This house, and so many of the others, can be saved.  Is the system broken?  Oh, yes.  Do we need more tools in the tool box of preservation?  Without a doubt.  Instead of wholesale destruction, how about working solutions instead?  Solutions that will bring this house and all the others an opportunity.

BTW...disagree with you, Kaiser.  This house is most certainly not a POS. It is structurally sound, and eminently salvagable.

[sheclown]

Wait, so they're just now getting around to ordering a structural engineering report AFTER it was already supposed to have been demolished? You gotta be kidding me.

I guess I'm not following.... are they doing this structural engineering report now to have an angle to proceed with demolition?

I hope so.  That POS has been unoccupied for 15 years. 

He must mean "piece of specialness"

[Kaiser Soze]

Wait, so they're just now getting around to ordering a structural engineering report AFTER it was already supposed to have been demolished? You gotta be kidding me.

I guess I'm not following.... are they doing this structural engineering report now to have an angle to proceed with demolition?

I hope so.  That POS has been unoccupied for 15 years. 

He must mean "piece of specialness"

I never refer to poo as "specialness."

[Timkin]

Wait, so they're just now getting around to ordering a structural engineering report AFTER it was already supposed to have been demolished? You gotta be kidding me.

I guess I'm not following.... are they doing this structural engineering report now to have an angle to proceed with demolition?

I hope so.  That POS has been unoccupied for 15 years. 

He must mean "piece of specialness"

I never refer to poo as "specialness."

You must work for the city

[acme54321]

Seems like the problem would be solved by allowing the city to foreclose on these properties once the fines reach the value of the property.  Then auction them off and recoup the fines they will never see.  Instead the city is paying for demolitions.  How much does that cost?  10k per house? 

[iloveionia]

$5-$12k depending on size and scope.
The Jewish Center would have been well beyond $12k

[Kaiser Soze]

Seems like the problem would be solved by allowing the city to foreclose on these properties once the fines reach the value of the property.  Then auction them off and recoup the fines they will never see.  Instead the city is paying for demolitions.  How much does that cost?  10k per house?

This would be my answer.

[Miss Fixit]

Seems like the problem would be solved by allowing the city to foreclose on these properties once the fines reach the value of the property.  Then auction them off and recoup the fines they will never see.  Instead the city is paying for demolitions.  How much does that cost?  10k per house?

This would be my answer.

The city already has the ability to do this.  They simply choose not to.

[sheclown]

and it could be done online...like it already is

https://www.duval.realforeclose.com/index.cfm?ZACTION=HOME&ZMETHOD=SITEGUIDE