I had a couple of questions over the past couple of days which I have answers to.
Q. You said the land was $311,350.00. According to the land records the cost of the land was $636,000.00. Which price is correct?
A. "The seller of the land had it appraised at the $ 636,000. The sale was $ 311,350 paid in cash and the $ 434,650 was recorded as a donation to the City from the seller."
Q. In your rechecking, ask about a local architect named Jernigan (or something like that), who has no fire station experience, except this nightmare, I believe.
A. "Finith Jernigan is the principal in Design Atlantic. Design Atlantic was the design build agent for the City. Mr. Jernigan was selected because his firm was the only local firm which could manage the entire scope of the project. Design Atlantic has public safety building experience in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Finith brought to the project a Building Information Modeling system which was fully integrated into the process. Design Atlantic is recognized nationally as a leader in implementing this virtual based approach to building construction process management. Stanford University recently analyzed the fire station project in a process to develop a model for the General Services Administration. The new fire station was one of four projects selected worldwide for the Stanford study. This is the process that recently received international recognition by winning a 2008 FIATECH CETI award. In the last several days The Daily Times had an article about Mr. Jernigan winning an award for a book ( Big Bim Little Bim) he authored on Building Information Modeling." Before someone asks, my source says that Mr.Jernigan is the sole owner of his firm and to his knowledge has no other contacts with City officials.
Q. Did you ever get the land cost in Salisbury straight -- like how much -- and what about the foreclosure sale shortly before the city bought the site? It's really smelly, I'm told.
A. Apparently the land has a very checkered past but to the best of my source's knowledge it was purchased from someone in the Baltimore metro area. He is not aware of any local contacts to the land. The City obtained a low appraisal of approximately $ 175,000 and the seller had the $ 636,000 appraisal . Initially the seller agreed to sell at around $200,000. After the seller withdrew the offer the City began plans to take the property by the emanate domain process. The final price was negotiated to avoid both sides having to go to court and have a judge decide the value.
I'm trying my best here. If there are any more questions, I'll do my best AGAIN to answer them.
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This is so funny. Let's see, what will I ask next to make you go do all this research for nothing. Seriously, who gives a shit.
I don't really feel it's for nothing and apparently you must give a shit if you are here. Or perhaps you just enjoy being lied to by and fed a line of shit from "the other blogger".
P.S. This really didn't take alot of time to research. If you think you put me out...you didn't.
I'd say you give a shit joey since you came back to read it.
Although you don't realize or appreciate it as such, this is "responsible journalism with fact checking."
Perhaps by cerebral osmosis some of this will sink into the skunk water filled brain of yours.
SS you fail to understand that the fans of Albero *like* being ignorant. To them rolling in their ignorance is like a happy pig wallowing in it's own feces. It's is the happiest place they can be.
It's only when you introduce them to nasty hard "facts" that they get all irritable and fussy.
You said:
"Mr. Jernigan was selected because his firm was the only local firm which could manage the entire scope of the project."
Please ask Davis, Bowen & Freidel (a "local firm") about that nonsense. Didn't they do the Ward Foundation building and site design?
Sir/Madam:
Where do you get stuff like this (or does Barrie dictate it to you): "The City obtained a low appraisal of approximately $175,000and the seller had the $636,000 appraisal"???
Here's the actual story -
On May 27, 2005 a deed was filed that transferred the land to Salisbury Trust, LLC for $175,000 It states that the land was bought at an auction for that amount.
A few months later, in September 2005, a deed by Salisbury Trust, LLC was filed that transferred the land to the City of Salisbury for $636,000, which is stated to be the total of $304,900 cash and $331,100 as "gifted to the City of Salisbury" The odor persists even at this late date.
If you are correct about the rest of the story, the City really screwed up --
"Initially the seller agreed to sell at around $200,000. After the seller withdrew the offer the City began plans to take the property by the emanate domain process. The final price was negotiated to avoid both sides having to go to court and have a judge decide the value."
By "emanate domain process" you no doubt mean "condemnation".
Shooter:
The 10:28 comment is right. Look at the state records that are on the Internet for this property at http://sdatcert3.resiusa.org/rp_rewrite/
It looks like the City residents got screwed again.
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