Towerview Apartments

[USRufnex]

quote:Originally posted by Leah

This is good that this owner is trying to fight to keep his property. I think that it's neat that the owner is keeping the cornerstone above towerview's door. Lets see what plans are ahead. The lame excuse to take the building is gone and Don Himelfarb and Kathy Miller are a bunch of millionairs who say one thing and do another. This is a victory to the average Tulsans. Lets see what happens next.

If, by "average Tulsans," you mean local multi-millionaires who think it's alright to maintain rancid living conditions and treat paying tenants to overpriced substandard housing with no recourse, I suppose you're right.

The news is we're back to business as usual, whether the occupants of the mayor's office are southern hills republicans or limousine liberals...

For those consipiracy theorists who imply the city had something to do with the fire...

quote:Claiming the property through eminent domain because of a blight problem no longer is possible because the building will be gone soon, Schwartz said.

"Now that the building is being demolished, any claim that there is a blighted property for eminent domain . . . no longer stands," he said.

So, who benefits most from that fire at the Towerview?

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by USRufnex

quote:Originally posted by Leah

This is good that this owner is trying to fight to keep his property. I think that it's neat that the owner is keeping the cornerstone above towerview's door. Lets see what plans are ahead. The lame excuse to take the building is gone and Don Himelfarb and Kathy Miller are a bunch of millionairs who say one thing and do another. This is a victory to the average Tulsans. Lets see what happens next.

If, by "average Tulsans," you mean local multi-millionaires who think it's alright to maintain rancid living conditions and treat paying tenants to overpriced substandard housing with no recourse, I suppose you're right.

The news is we're back to business as usual, whether the occupants of the mayor's office are southern hills republicans or limousine liberals...

For those consipiracy theorists who imply the city had something to do with the fire...

quote:Claiming the property through eminent domain because of a blight problem no longer is possible because the building will be gone soon, Schwartz said.

"Now that the building is being demolished, any claim that there is a blighted property for eminent domain . . . no longer stands," he said.

So, who benefits most from that fire at the Towerview?

Who? The bums who set it. I must have missed the implications that the city had anything to do with the torching. What would have been their motivation?

[RecycleMichael]

The police have a confession from a homeless person who has already been charged with a felony. Homeless people sometimes start fires in abandoned downtown buildings in the winter time to stay warm.

[AVERAGE JOE]

quote:Originally posted by Leah

This is good that this owner is trying to fight to keep his property. I think that it's neat that the owner is keeping the cornerstone above towerview's door. Lets see what plans are ahead. The lame excuse to take the building is gone and Don Himelfarb and Kathy Miller are a bunch of millionairs who say one thing and do another. This is a victory to the average Tulsans. Lets see what happens next.


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You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, but you've been consistent in that regard throughout the entire thread.

The reason this is victory for Tulsa has nothing in common with why you think this is a victory. It's a good thing because we don't have a blighted property gumming up potential development on land that is currently being wasted on surface parking across from our $180 million investment. If your buddy doesn't want to sell his cleared land for a reasonable price, then development will happen around it. The market will dictate what happens now without a blighted property muddying the waters.

just fyi, the easiest way that your Portland pal could have avoided all this would've been to do SOMETHING constructive with his property in the 2+ years since it was condemned. That way, it wouldn't have become so blighted as to warrant being added to the city's Urban Renewal Plan. Wow, what a concept.

[Rico]

 Now.....

Everyone needs an Attorney/Lobbyist...

Even "slumlords" from Oregon...



[}:)]

[Rico]

[clip]
Mark Schwartz, the attorney for the building's out-of-state owner, said the cornerstone from the Towerview Apartments will be saved to incorporate into a new development.

"We'll keep a little bit of Tulsa history," Schwartz said.[end clip]

That is of course... unless the ebay reserve price is met...

[carltonplace]

Demolition started Saturday.

[tim huntzinger]

BREAKING, URGENT:

quote:Originally posted by carltonplace

Demolition started Saturday.

That would be the REALLY LONG article on the top of this page, there, CP.

My Houstonian sister develops real estate with a nice man who finances and constructs urban lots near their downtown, putting in condos and what not (including renovating brownfield lots!).

Whom should she contact about the price of the land on the East side of Denver from the Arena?

[David Arnett]

Tim,
As an Internet publisher, I would think you would know the answer, TDA - Tulsa Development Authority, 110 South Hartford, Tulsa (918) 596-2600.

Also, www.TulsaToday.com posted some pictures of the "take down" today at http://www.tulsatoday.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1160&Itemid=2 (direct link to story) and we have another story on the Towerview due in the next few days.

All the best,
David

[tim huntzinger]

quote:Originally posted by David Arnett

Tim,
As an Internet publisher, I would think you would know the answer, TDA - Tulsa Development Authority, 110 South Hartford, Tulsa (918) 596-2600.

MEOW! As an internet publisher, you are no fun!

I really do not give a poop, David.  I wanted more to illustrate the fact that I have kinfolk that are really into this kind of thing.

[tim huntzinger]

Oh, by the way, I am a 'publisher' like Larry Flynt is an novelist.  Good luck on putting together that 'article.'  Yeah, that should take a few days.

[Wrinkle]

Anyone come up with the Towerview's former owner yet?

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by Wrinkle

Anyone come up with the Towerview's former owner yet?

Shhhh! Those owners are hoping this all just blows away like the dust in the debris pile.

[Wrinkle]

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

quote:Originally posted by Wrinkle

Anyone come up with the Towerview's former owner yet?

Shhhh! Those owners are hoping this all just blows away like the dust in the debris pile.

Now you know why I've become really curious.

[waterboy]

quote:Originally posted by Wrinkle

quote:Originally posted by waterboy

quote:Originally posted by Wrinkle

Anyone come up with the Towerview's former owner yet?

Shhhh! Those owners are hoping this all just blows away like the dust in the debris pile.

Now you know why I've become really curious.

[]It may be like the Black Panthers used to say when asked about how many members they had, "Those who know, don't say. Those who say, don't know."