Cuyahoga Co. Commissioners stopped from razing landmark for new building

With the history of corruption, incompetence and wasteful spending by area democrats over the years, I get nervous anytime Cuyahoga County or the City of Cleveland officials do anything more than leave work.

The county plan to raze the Ameritrust Tower for new county offices has hit a snag. Even though the commissioners have no finished plan for the new building, they are mad the city's planning commission told them to get bent on razing the Ameritrust Tower.

Only in Cuyahoga County could someone expect to tear down a landmark for new offices and not have a finished plan of the new building.

From the PD --

The battle over the fate of a landmark tower downtown reached an uneasy standoff Friday, with the city's Planning Commission refusing to approve demolition that would clear the way for a new Cuyahoga County administration complex.

City Planning Commission Chairman Tony Coyne ripped county officials for lack of cooperation and failure to seriously consider saving the 29-story Ameritrust tower at East Ninth Street and Euclid Avenue as part of the new complex.

"We don't get it in Cleveland," Coyne said. "In downtown Chicago, they would never tear this down."

County Commissioner Tim Hagan fired back, saying multiple architects found the tower unworkable for the county's needs.

"This is beyond anything I've confronted in my political life," Hagan said in an interview Friday afternoon. "An unelected group dictating to commissioners what kind of building should be built in a city where the mayor and City Council president support it. That's exactly what's wrong with the city." More....

Yeah that's it Tim! What's wrong with the city would never be the failures of local democrats to lead effectively and without corruption. Taxin' Tim is staying true to the Democrat belief; if it goes wrong, blame someone else!

This article, while informative, misses a bigger issue.....

• How can we begin a building project without a finished plan?

• Without a finished plan, how were the estimated costs for this new building projected?

• What are the estimated costs to complete this project and what measures will be in place to assure financial transparency of the project?

The comments on this post at the PD site are great and telling. It seems as maybe the residents of this county are starting to open their eyes. It seems they are no longer buying the day old jelly doughnuts, with no jelly, served by the local democrats.

With the city and counties history of blunders, incompetence and corruption at Steelyard Commons, Triangle Development and Hopkins Airport, these guys should be limited to only building with Leggo's and Lincoln Logs.