Fire Dept. HQ For Sale

[DetroitPlanner]

Kind of like the County bolting out of the County Building. Magnificent planning around here.

The County did not own the county building when it left. It was owned for the previous 20 years by Farbman and the County was the tenant. It was a financial deal made to renovate the building at a very low expense. The trouble the county had was since they did not own it, they had to rely on a landlord to maintain the building. The landlord was not maintaining it [[remember how long the scaffolding was up around the tower?).

The City will not need the property once the new place opens. Why should they hold onto it and let it become another Fort Wayne? They should get some private ownership there to turn it into something useful.

[poobert]

The County did not own the county building when it left. It was owned for the previous 20 years by Farbman and the County was the tenant. It was a financial deal made to renovate the building at a very low expense. The trouble the county had was since they did not own it, they had to rely on a landlord to maintain the building. The landlord was not maintaining it [[remember how long the scaffolding was up around the tower?).

The City will not need the property once the new place opens. Why should they hold onto it and let it become another Fort Wayne? They should get some private ownership there to turn it into something useful.

Thanks for the information on the county building.

But who still owns Fort Wayne? The City.

Has the city made any meaningful attempts to enhance, sell, transfer ownership of, or rehab the property [[or, frankly, maintain it)? No. Bafflingly, it is run by the Recreation Department, and I've dealt with those fools regarding the Fort before. Their only responsibility is cutting the grass once a year or so. The only people who do anything worth a damn there is the Historic Fort Wayne Coalition, and they're volunteers.

Not to digress, but just to illustrate a point that I have little faith that this City, which seems to purposely do everything wrong, will do this right.

I know DPS is not the CoD, but it is basically the same bunch of friends and family, "Reverends" and illiterate compulsive maturbators, and look how they've handled the schools they've vacated and put up "for sale."
In fact, you can go look for yourself by just walking right into them - the doors and windows are all gone!