The Press-Dispatch
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A-4 Wednesday, March 28, 2012 The Press-Dispatch Unsafe Building Committee discusses demolition of three properties lar Saloon has taken one more step toward resolution and the building should be torn down sometime in the next couple of months after action taken last Wednes- day by the Petersburg Un- safe Buildings Hearing Au- thority. David Henson is the Hear- The saga of the Silver Dol- By Mike Johansen ing Officer of the Peters- burg Unsafe Building Hear- ing Authority City Attorney Brian Ma- his opinion it should be torn down. The old garage has al- ready fallen down. The Authority continued the hearing on the proper- ty but ordered that is must be secured within 14 days to make sure no one can get in the building because it is unsafe. The Authority also talked Dollar Saloon, Amy Casey of Oakland City, was at the hearing and agreed with the Authority in determin- ing the building must come down. Her main problem is that she does not have the fi- nancing to complete the de- molition and it looks like the City of Petersburg will have to bear the cost of tearing down the remainder of the building. That could cost a few thousand dollars as they will not be able to do it with city staff. The front part of that building collapsed last year and a little more than 50 percent of the build- ing remains standing. The back garage door has been taken out as it was sold by the owner. The owner has talked ex- honey led the hearings and interviewed the owners at the meeting. The owner of the Silver Ms. Casey that, within a week, she must make sure the back garage door area is secured and boarded up to make sure no one can get into the back portion of the building. One of the other factors tensively with Mayor Craig and had thought they could rehabilitate the back portion at first, but it has since been determined the back portion is also unsafe and needs to be demolished. The board instructed with Jamie Brown, owner of a dilapidated home at 202 East Sycamore. He showed the Authority a copy of a check to Ice Construction cussed the Paul Brews- ter property at 302 Maple Street. A mobile home was for demolition on the prop- erty. He said Ice was hav- ing equipment problems and would tear the house down as soon as the equip- ment was repaired. Brown said he realizes the danger of the old house and has al- ready taken action to have it leveled. He was issued an order to have it torn down within 30 days. The Authority also dis- attached to a building that remains on the property. The mobile home has been removed and a three sided structure remains. It is in poor condition and needs to be torn down. There was a question whether or not the Brewsters have been proper- ly served with a notice of the hearing. The Petersburg Po- lice Department was to have served the notice, but the Authority did not have evi- dence that the service was completed. Chief Chuck Baumgart said he would know later that day if offi- cial service was made. The Authority delayed ac- tion on the property pend- ing notification that service was made on the Brewsters. They did issue a preliminary order that the building must be torn down and the prop- erty cleaned up in 30 days if proper notice was given. The action would not be ef- fective until it was deter- mined that the Brewsters received proper notice. new owner of property at Ninth and Poplar brought his concerns about the property at Ninth and Cher- ry noting it was not in very good condition and a dan- ger to the community. It is apparently owned by Tra- cy and Neal Gordon and in the process of being sold to Steve Swanson. It is on the committee's agenda for pos- sibly the next unsafe build- ings hearing for action in the near future. Loren Richardson, the DON'T MISS IT! 114 YEARS weighing on what and when the building will be torn down is repairs to be made to the adjoining building by owner Randy Harris. His real estate office was in the next building when the Sil- ver Dollar collapsed. He is going to have a contractor secure the wall between his building, which is now emp- ty, and the Silver Dollar to make sure there is no fur- ther damage to his stand- ing building or the build- ing housing Sweet Stuff. That work should start in the near future and when it is done the rest of the Sil- ver Dollar can then be torn down. The owner was issued an order to have the building torn down in 30 days or the city would take further ac- tion on its own to tear down the building. Also, no tres- passing signs must be put on the property within a week. The original owner of 2 MILLENNIA 3 CENTURIES 3 AGES 5 GENERATIONS The Press-Dispatch continues to be your best source of information about you, your friends and all of Pike County... Discounted IN Properties does is buy properties up for auction by counties for the back taxes and then tries to sell them. He has the prop- erties listed on a Web site from all over Indiana and may do business in other states. Gupta's name came up on the Silver Dollar was Vinod Gupta's Discounted IN Prop- erties. He sold the building to someone in Muncie and then to Casey as Petersburg officials found out during the process on condemning the building, seeking its ac- tual owner and seeking it to be cleaned up. At the time it served as a club for a local group and one person lived in the apartment above the saloon, but was not at home when it collapsed. The city had filed court action against Gupta and actually collected $2,000 for the ac- tion, but found out the actu- al owner now is Casey and Gupta legally had nothing to do with the building any more. Apparently what Gupta BECOME EVEN BETTER AND IT'S ABOUT TO another property that was before the Authority at 204 South 12th Street, however, he has shown documents that it was sold in January to someone in Muncie, but the actual change of owner- ship was not filed with the county until the week before the hearing to condemn the property. Mayor Craig said he has talked with the cur- rent owners and notified them of the properties con- dition and the hearing on the property. The owners name is listed as Nicole Van Matter of Muncie. Building Inspector James Sims said it his opinion the building is in very poor con- dition and would be very ex- pensive to repair. He said it 04.04.12