The old Sears Building on Palm Coast Parkway after the county had bought it. (© FlaglerLive)
Flagler County government on Friday filed suit against the inspection company that the county claims misled it about the soundness of the former Sears building on Palm Coast Parkway. The county bought that building for $1.125 million in 2019, discovered severe water intrusion after the sale, and eventually sold the building to a church for a steep loss last June, after a previous potential sale to a dance studio fell through.
The Sears fiasco was an embarrassment for the county, which was struggling to rid itself of another costly white elephant, the former and five times as costly Sheriff’s Operations center, for the same reason: water intrusion and mold. The county sold that building last July for $400,000 less than it paid for it, and was saddled with a debt of between $4 and $5 million–county officials obfuscated the precise figure when asked–from the cost of renovating what had
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