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« on: February 01, 2012, 06:51:25 AM »
Why would a guy from Mexico own a dilapidated bldg in a bad part of Jtown? Something just does not just sound right.

http://tribune-democrat.com/bigstory/x1296875723/Former-Johnstown-school-burns
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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2012, 07:21:12 AM »
...and why is a derelict building allowed to stand creating more hazards and an absent owner from Coronatown?
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« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2012, 07:35:54 AM »
Quote from: WDVE on February 01, 2012, 07:21:12 AM
...and why is a derelict building allowed to stand creating more hazards and an absent owner from Coronatown?
There is probably fifty them in the city borders if not more. I wish the city knew what eminent domain was.
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« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2012, 10:19:14 AM »
Quote from: millcreek on February 01, 2012, 07:35:54 AM
There is probably fifty them in the city borders if not more.

Mexicans?  :-)
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« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2012, 10:23:15 AM »
That building was probably bought by a trust that the Mexican owner had through a tax sale.  How many Johnstowners even looked at the building on a tax sale roster and realized what it would cost to even attempt to raze the building and put something else up?  The biggest factor is that a lot of the buildings in the city or even the US have no local ownership.  Have to wonder how many of the owners even know where their building is or what the area it is located in looks like.  

As for eminent domain there has been cases where the local governing body tries to take ownership only to have an owner show up at the last minute to save their property.  This is not a problem just in Johnstown but around the country.  There has to be a way but it turns out costing the municipality a lot more in the long run than just letting the building crumble or in this case burn to the ground.  

At least Richland took care of the old Mine 37 school building before someone got hurt.
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« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2012, 12:41:47 PM »
And will it be the city that gets stuck with the bill to tear down and removal of the destroyed structure?
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« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2012, 02:14:04 PM »
Quote from: oldster on February 01, 2012, 10:19:14 AM
Mexicans?  :-)

No, derelicts!
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« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2012, 08:56:21 PM »
If the buildings are in such bad shape and the city is going to end up footing the bill to tear them down it seems to make more sense to go through a court system have the building condemned and then rip it down by billing the owner/s for the costs.   Can they do such a thing?
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« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2012, 07:15:19 AM »
........i bet after they sift thru the ashes they will find a tunnel underneath that leads right to Mehico............the longest ever attempted by the drug cartels.............and another major artery of the drug smuggling bizzness is no longer........
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« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2012, 10:02:10 AM »
It would explain a lot of that weekend gun play going on up that way.   Wait or stabbing someone for $25 bucks worth of smoke and then thinking your cool cause you did that.
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