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I would imagine if you read through a lot of the posts for this area you would have had all your questions answered over and again. This is NOT a crime area. Never has been. Flood...if you live East of US#1 you will be close to the water and most likely in a flood zone for insurance. No, we don't have to wade in the water on a regular basis.
Mosquito's are here as they are everywhere. Standing water is your enemy and their friend.
Christ Fellowship church, the 9th largest church in the US, has given the city a check for $13 million to buy the former Digital Domain Building!! It still needs approval from the City Council, but it looks like one of the monkeys on our city's back is finally getting kicked off!
I understand PSLWater, but IMO it would be better off cleared from our monthly debt vs and annual tax collection. It's disappointing that not many jobs will be created and the city will lose out on taxes, but it's best to get rid of it. It's time to cut our losses and move on.
The sale to Christ Fellowship is madness. All it does is continue the losses for years, or decades, to come. Add up all the taxes between city and county that won't be collected. A million a year. If this is the bottom of the market and the value rises back to $40m? Then it is several million a year we lose each year.
This church won't help the surrounding business. So, you have a few hundred people attend service twice a week. That won't encourage any new business to open up or add many customers to existing business. All it does is congest the traffic a few hours a week.
Now, imagine if you had somebody else set up shop there. They have hundreds of employees there every day. They bring in hundreds of customers every day. Before long, other businesses open to sell lunch. You get banks and drugstores. It spurs growth.
If somebody other than the church opens, they might sublease the property. Each of those new business pays license fees, permits, other gov fees. Payroll taxes. Supplies. Each has electricity and internet at varying costs. Now a sale like that adds millions to the local economy.
So, if this Church opens you get bad traffic two days a week and then it is a ghost town the rest of the week. The City and County gets to lose out on millions in taxes for helping it prevent growth. The City may be selling at the bottom and get twice of what they paid in jest a few short years. How is that a good deal?
We have had other suitors. Commercial real estate doesn't sell in weeks. It sometimes takes years. Let the market work. NO to this mega-church!!!!!
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