The Sun-Sentinel's Michael Mayo takes a look at the close relationship between Hollywood mayor Guilianti and developer Chip Abele and their ongoing attempted theft of the Mach family's land.
In this area, condos sell out within hours of being put on the market. Why any city would give a developer multi-millions in incentives to build a set of them is insane.
It would all just be crappy local politics if were not for the fact that they've teamed up to try to steal an ordinary family's land.
UPDATE:
The developer of a new condo unit in Ft. Lauderdale is requiring people pay a $2,500 deposit merely for the pleasure of enquiring about a condo there. Did this developer also need millions in taxpayer-funded incentives to put up a building?
The condo thing: answer is, tax revenue.
Condos by the thousands are a local government's dream, as to a steady stream of fees, fines, and other taxes, whether someone's occupying them or not.
Posted by: -S- at July 10, 2005 01:32 PMI was reading that there is a flurry of activity going on in the legislature to get changes in place so the little joe will be protected. I hope they get them in place. This whole concept of just taking land (ok, so they 'compensate' you...who ASKED them?) and giving it to a developer is disgusting and unjust. I wrote to everyone I could think of and I'm on a mission to rewrite them this coming week.
But S, that company was given millions and millions in taxpayer-funded incentives to build. Incentives that weren't necessary considering the housing market here.
Posted by: Donnah at July 10, 2005 04:47 PMMrs. Cracker,
Thank you for posting this. I just blogged about it at my blog and linked back to you in your trackbacks. This smells terribly fishy to me.
Posted by: Bill at July 10, 2005 08:53 PM