The city is considering two new neighborhood tax incremental districts to address issues with housing in the city s west-central side. Some argued a TID won t address the real problem of
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The Park theater s sign, untouched for more than a decade, now reads SAVE ME, visible to drivers on Washington Avenue. ADAM ROGAN,
RACINE â The City Council voted Tuesday to fund the raze order that will demolish the 1928 historic landmark theater that has been the subject of dispute between the city and locals who want to preserve the building.
The Park has been under a raze order for more than two years.
An effort by Alderman Mollie Jones to delay the raze order by three months was unsuccessful.
Aldermen Jeff Coe, Mollie Jones, Trevor Jung, Jeffrey Peterson, Mary Land and Natalia Taft voted to delay funding the raze order. Alderman Henry Perez was excused from the meeting.
RACINE â Azarian Wrecking will retain the contract to demolish The Park-Capitol Theater, 3017 Washington Ave.
The Public Works and Services Committee recommended on Jan. 12 to award the contract to the second-lowest bidder, Veit & Co., rather than the lowest bidder, Racine-based Azarian Wrecking, which had bid $199,777 for the project.
Concerns were raised about Azarian Wrecking after a company representative put padlocks on the doors to The Park, thus locking out the buildingâs owner.
Owner Sam Azarian said the city failed to communicate the antiques in the building would not be part of the salvage. However, Azarianâs low bid was made with his understanding he would be able to offset the low bid by selling the antiques in the building.
Mason
The county did not publicly disclose its plans for use of the Brannum Lumber site for months after the location had been determined. However, the county gave Racine Mayor Cory Mason and other members of city administration notice as early as July 21, although Mason evidently did not pass the information along to the City Council.
An examination of the timeline indicates city and county did not communicate fully with the public, or with each other.
Correspondingly, The Journal Times did not ask pertinent questions when the purchase of the Taylor Avenue property appeared on county meeting agendas in July â although county notices made no mention of what the Taylor Avenue property would be used for.