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Friday, February 15, 2013
For Sale: East School
A slightly used, fixer-upper property with streetscape views and dozens of sweeping rooms — classrooms that is — just became available on the market nearly three years after Springfield voters decided to unload it.
http://www.eagletimes.com/node/101764
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Buy it for 100k pay 20,000 a year in taxes
ReplyDeletenow it's time to put park st school up for sale
ReplyDeleteLet the countdown begin. How long before the self serving, do-gooders appeal to the non tax paying voters into gifting them the site as a property buffer.
ReplyDeleteAdvertise an absolute auction sales and have it liquidated in 90 days. Get it on the tax roles ASAP.
well, I'd buy that for a dollar.
DeleteSo would David Yesman.
Deleteanon 10:21 am YES !!
ReplyDeleteWe can thank our former school board chair for this debacle. He pushed to have the Gateway Program move from East School, probably thinking the hospital or other organization would buy it. So now Gateweay has been paying rent to the catholic church, and the district is still paying for whatever maintenance, upkeep, heat, etc for the vacant building.
ReplyDeleteVacating East School was one of the more stupid moves that we have made in the last few years.
DeleteThis article on this site might as well be a billboard to the copper thieves in SpringVegas.
ReplyDeleteFunny
DeleteJust think a dozen more section-8 apartments full of baby mamas and baby dramas. Or another place for HCRS to house more of their clients as they continue to migrate to Springfield. Or another drug and alcohol treatment place, you can never have too many of those here. What ever it becomes one can only predict it will become another parasitic establishment sucking on the resources of the state and town without providing a dime back into the system.
ReplyDeleteYou think?
DeleteLet's spend the $287,000 we were going to spend on Union street parking to flatten it, make it parking and add a zip line to union street so the teachers can get to work FASTER - Z I P.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately the way that bond was written, the money - $287,000 - has to be used in some type of renovation for one of THREE schools - Union, Elm or Park. Those three schools rehab and renovation are specifically outlined in the bond and that is the only place this money can be spent by the district, according to the financial office.
DeleteThen make one $287,000 bond payment.
DeleteDon't worry folks, wonder boy Bob Flint and SRDC will find another beltway bandit with access to federal funds to initiate a renovation of the premises for additional medical offices; which will then shift the tenants in the old Fellows complex (who previously shifted from other office spaces around town, leaving them vacant) to the new East School Medical Office Campus -- which will feature a "Small Hall" for displaying what apparently passes for art produced by local artisans. The new complex will near completion and then run out of federal dollars, which will result in it limping forward on a month to month basis, having to use tenant rental income to try to achieve completion of the entire project. Unphased however,wonder boy Bob and his friends will hold a splashy ribbon cutting, declare the project another rousing success for Springfield, and then move on to the next illusion of economic progress for the stagnant town of Springfield. Let's see, that could be Park Street School by then...
ReplyDeleteA couple things to think about: Shouldn't the elimination of these "district" properties create a substantial savings in the district budget with the taxes, insurance and upkeep? Where exactly is that savings because we haven't seen it in the budget/s since the last property was given away.
ReplyDeleteSince there is dispute as to whether the town or the district owns the land that park street is on. Why in the hell wouldn't the district rehab this building-house both the district offices AND Gateway. Then they should sell off for re-claiming the parts of park street such as the floors, marble, moulding etc in the portion of the building furthest from the gym. Once those pieces are taken out and sold you tear down that portion of the building leaving the gym and theater portion. Give that to the town for parks and rec. Make a nice parking lot out of the rest. Then the town could strip the old parks and rec and sell of the usables like flooring and old beams etc and could then tear down the old parks and rec gym creating room for additional parking for the town. Problem solved. Parks and rec would get a wonderful space which would include a theater for acting camps and possibly summer stock theater. We unload a building which is both an eyesore and a problem as well as save the school district on taxes. I mean this crap isn't rocket science. It is called moving forward without having to wait years and years and years for public funds to re-hab 200 different projects which never ever seem to move forward.
Yes to above at 2:56. Perhaps when the discussion comes to the front burner again, as to the building use, you should sell the idea to the committee.
DeleteMaybe include the Town Hall / offices into the mix as well.
2:56 you should run for the select board instead of falling for the old okie doke here.
DeleteSee the problem is people complain and post here like it is going to accomplish something. This blog gives you a voice, but it doesn't provide action to that voice, meanwhile, the current select board/school board sits back cackling and rolling a blunt, because while people witch and complain here, no one challenges them publicly.
Posters on this blog think posting here is some sort of civic engagement, I hate to break it to you folks, but not one post here has ever had any significant impact. You can post and complain all you want, but the only way to actually make change or have your ideas heard is to do so at the proper forum, and this ain't it.
Oh gosh, thank you, thank you, thank you. I was going to post something here, but you have convinced me that any thoughts expressed here would be wasted effort. You are so smart. Why, you must be a closet select board member yourself!
DeleteYou. Are. Welcome.
DeleteUmh, since when do schools pay taxes?
DeleteGovernment budget savings are automatically viewed by the idiotcrats "in charge" of them as an entitlement to spend those savings elsewhere. They are virtually never returned to the taxpayers and seldom if ever used to offset future budgets. Statutory changes need to be made that would mandate that these so-called savings are deposited in an account that would be returned to taxpayers in the form of a rebate periodically, once the account reached a certain balance that would make it reasonable to do so.
ReplyDeleteOne of the biggest budget "savings" scams run at the federal level has been the Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closure Act. It was promoted as a means of consolidating the defense department's assets and generate huge savings in the defense budget. It has never happened. Sure, base closures have occurred, but the movement of assets has entailed large federal construction projects (hence spending) elsewhere, along with the reallocation of other "savings" to other pet projects. The end result has been a defense budget that continued to escalate while your federal government continued to tout the "savings" being generated by their impeccable fiscal management.
The entire system is rotten and run by disingenuous idiotcrats who view themselves as entitled to our money for their own purposes. And since it's our money they're spending, they could care less, because with their powers of confiscation (taxation), there will always be plenty more where that came from.
prob the hospital will buy it so they wont pay taxes on it just like the rec center
ReplyDeleteYeah, how did that happen? I thought the rec center was supposed to be (somewhat) self-supporting? Anybody?
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