Swampscott selectmen question safety of Glover House property
Call for inspection comes after the Jan. 26 basement fire
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The Swampscott Board of Selectmen has asked local public safety officials to determine whether or not the town should condemn potentially unsafe structures on the old General Glover House site after a small fire broke out on the town-deemed blighted property.
Selectmen’s informal charge follows more than a year’s worth of enforcement actions from the office of the Swampscott Building Commissioner to force the property’s owner, Sunbeam Development Limited Partnership (Sunbeam), to put the rundown commercial property, 299 Salem St., in compliance with Swampscott’s blighted property bylaw.
Officials promise fines for blight
Town gave property owners until Sept. 15 to address issues and concerns
William J. Dowd
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A pair of Swampscott commercial property owners has for the third time been mailed official outreach notices by the local building inspector for allegedly violating the town’s blighted property bylaw.
The dilapidated properties the town argues remain in violation include the old gas station at 182 Paradise Road – owned by Best Petroleum – as well as the old General Glover House Restaurant at 299 Salem St. – owned by the Sunbeam Development Limited Partnership (Sunbeam).