Aberdeen Investments

Submitted by lmcshane on June 11, 2008 - 8:12pm.
Aberdeen Investments

Their idea of investment.  Last time, I rode my bike by this site on Stanford Ave, adjacent to Deaconess, it smelled of gas fumes.  Actually, you can ride your bike throughout Cleveland and catch two kinds of gas smells--natural gas, because the pipes throughout the city are corroding--and, methane gas, from the sanitary sewer lines.

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Taxpayers foot the bill again

Submitted by lmcshane on June 23, 2009 - 9:37pm.

 
Have taxpayers footed the bill again?  What now for Aberdeen Investments, who now have their lots cleared at taxpayer expense?  Is this to be "reimagined" Cleveland?

 

Check out how little these guys pay in taxes for these two Stanford Ave. properties at the Cuyahoga County Auditor's site...the properties are listed in foreclosure, but no liens applied for the demolition, as of yet...

Series of sell-outs

Submitted by lmcshane on June 12, 2008 - 10:20am.

  We, the few, the proud, long-time residents of Ward 15 and Ward 16 have been served (or is it serviced?) by a string of sell-out representatives far removed from our once bucolic community.  Will the Plain Dealer ever bother to write about it?

I believe that is your responsibility...

Submitted by Norm Roulet on June 12, 2008 - 11:20am.

Unless there are some PD folks living in your neighborhood, I doubt any of their writers are really paying attention to your concerns. Probably the best way to raise that is to write about it here, as you do. Get more of your neighbors to join the dialogue here!

Disrupt IT

PD writers in the city

Submitted by lmcshane on June 12, 2008 - 12:05pm.

  Are there any PD writers living in the city?  That would be my question of the day.

Cardboard crap

Submitted by lmcshane on April 12, 2009 - 10:05am.

  Don't fool yourself.  See above photos.  This is what "new" housing in Cleveland and inner ring suburbs really looks like in due time.  Mold is the least of your problems.  Now, why would you want to pay $400,000 for one of these models of fine construction?
 

Subsidized

Submitted by lmcshane on May 22, 2009 - 7:35am.

  I never implied that this project was "subsidized," but, Brian, you yourself imply significant "subsidy" in the form of CDC involvement.* (JeffB said "subsidized" --should he be "scared?")

I would like to know the history of investors behind this project.  If the property is still in foreclosure--will the City of Cleveland tack on the deconstruction costs to the lien?

 

*We've worked very hard to find investors and countless hours to assist in ensuring the properties have been secured and maintained.  Please be careful in commenting on things such as subsidies and unequivocal statements that second guess this activity.  Ask questions and I'll be happy to try to elaborate a three to five year chronic problem.

Overall, this project was a solid concept in its origin.  I was the CDC Director at Old Brooklyn CDC when we entered into a Memo of Understanding with the Developer.  The Developer acquired the properties and the CDC assisted with work with the City Departments and was to receive a total of $2,000 or 3,000 per unit fee that would of included oversight of the quality of the project and marketing the units upon completion. This was back in 2003-04 toward the end of the new construction boom.