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Upstate Gym Battles Eminent Domain Taking
Supporters pack council meeting as city’s “good neighbor” is being pushed out …
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The picture in this article is the County Council. Not City.
City, county… everything associated with Spartanburg is a disaster.
They are building a new city/county building. The county will occupy about 90% of it and the city 10%. Due to SC’s archaic annexation laws the city of Spartanburg is very small compared to the urbanized area of the county. The county generally calls the shots. I feel bad for the guy who own Nautilus but he has turned down an offer that is 5X the value on his tax assessment plus an additional $250,000 for moving expenses. The county will get it one way or another. I had thought until this week that the city/county bldg was going to be on the nautilus property but it seems they just want to be able to sell that parcel. Maybe he can work a deal to get a new location plus proceeds from the sale…
That’s a fair explanation. The Nautilus owner has not exactly been forthright with his version of the story. He lawyered up so now the County/City can’t say anything except via lawyer. It didn’t have to come to this, but you have to have good faith on both sides to get a fair, reasonable deal. No one would even know he’d been offered 1.75m except the Post & Courier exposed that.
If someone wants to keep their property and aren’t concerned with money, then that should be their choice.
When an immortal collective has the right to take from one to give to another we shouldn’t be surprised that individuals will be squashed.
Guess it’s a good thing Republicans nominated an eminent domain-abusing clown like Trump to run for president.
I wonder how a conservative SCOTUS feels about eminent domain?
TDS
The city leadership is hell-bent on turning the downtown into an Olympic village without the athletes. Business owners have long been tortured by fees, heavy handed code enforcement and taxes. The city manager has a long term love affair with certain developers.. County leadership is determined to have corporate developers to indiscriminately throw up cheaply built homes, apartments and warehouses anywhere.
This ignorance of common sense isn’t new to “the Burg”. Twenty five years ago the mayor and certain council members and school officials were bribed and cajoled to selling a parcel of property with a viable high school to a developer who specialized in strip centers. No rumor, proven fact that the local elected folks were offered “whatever it took” to expedite the acquisition. Now, the west side is the site of a tired Walmart, Home Depot, and a litany of cookie cutter retailers. The latest addition to the center is a plasma donation center.
Spartanburg has always looked to the west (Greenville) with extreme envy. That combined with continuing influence of certain “elephant”investors and developers ensures that any modicum of common sense will never be considered, especially when government is involved.