Strange that Huether would disagree with the ethics board’s decision on about property values adjacent to the Events Center (AL):
Huether acknowledged property along Burnside is on a new course for development as hotels, bars, restaurants and retail expected to grow up in the shadow of the events center will need building sites.
“Your property is going to be a lot more valuable,†Huether said.
Huh?! I thought Councilor Entenman was let off the hook for conflicts of interest because his property values would not increase? But the mayor says that is not true. Can the complaint be refiled?
I’m guessing that it’s just Councilor Entenman’s property value that will stay the same, then? Cleverly, the Ethics board must have realized that his property contains an inter-dimensional hole to a negative value universe…either that or, perhaps, they just made a really poor decision based on fear, expediency, obsequiousness…
It will always be hard to prove any sort of illegality or fraud regarding the events center proceedings, but no one can deny that the process has been rife with deception from day one.
Maybe Mike has personally promised Jim that HIS property value won’t go up so he can save on property taxes. lol
Consider the source! MMM is always shooting off his mouth with cliches and hyperbole, yet the media never call him out on it.
Toward the end of this AL story is another MMM Classic:
He also announced development downtown at some point will include a skating rink. “Rapid City has a downtown skating rink. They are not going to be the only city in South Dakota with a downtown skating rink. Mark my words,†he said.
Hey, MMM, Mitchell has a Corn Palace. Maybe we need one of those, too? LMAO!
Some of you read into things a tad too much. First of all, the Moose is adjacent to the proposed parking lot where people will need to park during large Events Center events, so in that degree it stands to reason that specific location might increase in value simply due to a bit more traffic presense.
However that doesn’t mean that all the property along that very same street will automatically become much more valuable. I somehow doubt the log cabin and the trailer homes in the area will double in value, and the laundromat down the street probably won’t be raising the price to dry a load another 50 cents.
Will Entenman’s property go up in value? Maybe… maybe not. A lot of promises are thrown around about property values, but for the most part that is not a high rent area, and it isn’t positioned well so I doubt it ever will be. The property values along West Ave and those along Russell could in theory go up, but lets not kid ourselves… land prices aren’t going to leap 75% just because the EC gets built.
I’d say Mike is merely saying what he thinks will make him popular, but if he actually sat down and thought about it, nobody really knows what might happen. If you go a couple blocks East or a couple blocks West from the Moose I’d be willing to bet values won’t change more than 5 or 10%, and if you think Entenman is going to strike it rich for a 10% (or heck even a 50%) increase in value you’re fooling yourself.
I’d say seize the Entenman property with Eminent Domain. Normally, reimbursement would be present market value. However, Entenman corruption has been recognized and Home Rule Charter allows what the dictator mayor wants to pay. $1 should do.
I’m going to the council meeting tonight with something to say for public comment. Just notice, not action or complaint. Council meetings are unconstitutional and unconstitutional until the city charter is amended per state supreme court ruling. I’d rather howl at the moon but it may be necessary to pay attention to puppets on the council post April 2012 when charter revisions are implemented.
someone must have left a window open, because it just got a little crazy in here.
This AL article reminds me of the “new viaduct” over Russell that was never mentioned BEFORE the election.
This kind of option was discussed extensively by the 2009 Task Force and ruled out as “too expensive.” Huether and Cooper knew this, they were at most of the meetings.
Then, only days after the election, at the listening and learning session at the Neighborhood Summit the Mayor announces that the viaduct is already in the planning stages. (see siouxfalls.org)
This in spite of the fact that Mike and his team were asked repeatedly at EC presentations….
Will there need to be extensive work done to the roads around the Arena site and if so, why is this not being included in the total cost!!??
Did they think that the “half-truths” that they were telling the taxpayers would not eventually surface!!??
The whole thing was based on half-truths cr. That’s how it got passed. Just sayin’
I know you’ll disagree on this, Andy, but think how much more of these not-mentioned costs would accumulate if it was downtown. There would have had to be a ramp; there would have had to be some serious reworking/widening of at least 2 streets.
We will eventually have to build a loading ramp for skidsteers at the new EC location for all the bullshit removal.
AG – You and Dan need to have a hugfest.
I see the city website is down tonight. I wonder if his public testimony caused a server meltdown?
Scott – those DT street improvements were in the works regardless of the EC being located there -and still are. No change in impact.
Rufusx is exactly right. Parking ramps, widening of streets are all in the budget. NOTHING out at the arena site is in the budget. Big difference.