Taxes all paid. Flu affecting family. Had everyone together (well almost everyone, and almost together) for the holiday weekend, so we shared it around.
The news of note was the closing of the new Gym, which is covered in a few other blogs, including The Morning Call. Basically, the guy offered a $99 fee, and collected quite a few, then disappeared in the dead of the holiday weekend. While not specifically the administration's problem, it is emblematic of what the future might hold. A going business moved out, and was replaced by a similar enterprise that took the money and ran. Hamilton Street is becoming a place for scams, because real businesses don't succeed. I guess he figured he made as much as he was going to make, right up front, and staying in business would just deplete his earnings.
On another front, tomorrow the Mayor is having a press conference to name another member to the Landlord Hall of Shame. Given the obviously horrid condition of the Municipal Golf Course Building that Brewworks is intending to occupy in replacement of the hot dog cart (it has taken months to bring it into code compliance) I am surprised that the City has not nominated itself.
I wonder how the City's property came to be in this position? Didn't it get regularly inspected? Do any city properties get inspected? How about redevelopment properties? What about all the alphabet soup organizations the City set up to own these properties it takes? Looked at objectively, might not the City be its own worst property owner?
It seems to me that we need to clean up our own act before pointing fingers.
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