Does filling out a COMIDA application entitle you to demolish someone else’s building?
The way things work with COMIDA - probably.
I’m sure you have been following the dust up in Greece where Wilmorite Management Group is trying to demolish a building they don’t own. From the D&C
A legal notice placed by the County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency states that Wilmorite is seeking to raze the Bon-Ton and replace it with smaller stores and restaurants totaling 70,000 square feet. But Bon-Ton says it’s not leaving.
Bon-Ton officials said today that the company owns the building, that Wilmorite hasn’t said anything about its plan and that it wants Wilmorite’s application to COMIDA withdrawn.
In this overstating of the obvious in a follow-up D&C article
It wasn’t clear how Wilmorite could demolish a building owned by Bon-Ton. Wilmorite’s application to COMIDA said demolition would begin Jan. 15, 2009. The new construction would be completed for a scheduled opening in November 2009.
COMIDA is scheduled to hold a public hearing on the application July 14 at Greece Town Hall. Wilmorite is seeking a $13.5 million sales tax exemption.
So how is that going to work? Check out the campaign contributions of Wilmorite Management Group or you can look at Wilmorite Property Management Group (both from the same Scottsville address).
So fill out a COMIDA application, demolish a building you don’t own.
Great
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[...] world where a large and connected Property Management company can receive $13.2 million dollars in Sales Tax exemption to build a retail project where existing retail [...]
Maybe this is Maggie’s Hip Pocketbook COMIDA’s version of “Eminent Domain”…
Too many issues raised.
1. How does Wilmorite qualify for COMIDA funding?
2. Why does Wilmorite NOT know they DO NOT own the building?
3. If BonTon owns the building, have past COMIDA funds been allocated to Wilmorite for this “block” section of the mall?
4. This isn’t a little mistake…who’s auditing Wilmorite, and how many other state and local grant applications have they been given under false pretenses of property they do not own?
5. What percentage of their political donations account for the offset of past funding received?
Pandora…open that box!
Its been a while but didn’t Wilmorite the back taxes to the city? Did this get paid?
http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/archives/2003/5/Big+debt+downtown
[...] those for retail businesses? Remember Mid-town athletic club? Look at the Medley Center. Look at Greece Ridge Mall. Remember that the County and State are dependent upon tax revenues. We know that COMIDA is a [...]