GT Redevelopment Agency is allowing 100,000.00 to be set aside for existing businesses to use for Property Improvements. Each business can apply for 35.000.00 and the business will put up 3,500.00 or 10 percent.
Lets review. So far the Redevelopment agency has gone into debt for nearly 14,000,000,000.00 and the primary beneficiary has been Doug Jacobsen, and Jack Brown Town Center), Manta Corporation (Out Door Adventure Center, Koontz connection), and the Corporation for Better Housing. The Corporation for Better Housing got 50 percent of the cost of building, legal assistance and use of land for 1 buck a year for 60 years... Hmmm. perhaps the deal above may be a better percentage, but it is not a fair sharing of RDA Resources with existing businesses. Many of the businesses have been harmed by RDA aided businesses. Many individuals have been harmed by the threatened use of Eminent Domain to force the sale of their property to a single buyer. (Jacobsen or the RDA).
So for the 3 businesses that may want to take advantage of the RDA FUNDS Please do so knowing that only 100,000.00 is available.
I suggest: The Current Shopping Center install a Out Door Dinning area in the corner of Restaurant Row area and Solar Powered Parking Canopy. The funds the RDA provides and some added funds from EPA and other places may make this a possibility... and in the long run it may decrease operation costs, look good and provide shade for parked cars in the summer.
However... In order to apply for these funds you may be saying, I have BLIGHT I need help to fix it. This admission then could be used in court and if once you have said you have Blight it is nearly a mark for life you have accepted that you are Blight and thus subject to the whims of the RDA and City Council. SO IF YOU TAKE MONEY FROM THE RDA, get a statement that the use of this money will secure a NON BLIGHT Status from the RDA and CITY... in return for your participation in their Blight Removal / Mitigation Program.
