Here's an update already.
This story from a Cincinnati newspaper and online publication, The Enquirer, is about a condominium-ization project that just received loan approval from the Cincinnati City Council for $450,000.00 to put a new roof on a large burned out Over the Rhine building. The idea of Abandoned Properties, Inc. is to turn one of the larger of Cincinnati's burned out Over The Rhine properties into a DisneyLand like Beer Garden and Condominiums. I do not support this projects' intention.
I looked, and I found at the time of the printing of this article and the angel investing by the city in Abandoned Properties, Inc., they were listed as "delinquent" in their property taxes several years running on this property.
Here's another update from The Cincinnati Beacon. Describing in Cincinnati the sort of corrupt practices that are common in all municipal goverments both large and small. Utterly ridiculous and even obstructive ordinances, coupled with lax enforcement against insiders, are being used by Cincinnati policitians and their moneyed supporters to seize properties that are vacant, but these same ordinances are quite obviously only being selectively applied for that desired effect.
Power corrupts, but fortunately enough, absolute power doesn't exist.
This is the building I'm working towards, 1732 Vine Street in Cincinnati.
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