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Last night I had the opportunity to talk one on one with Chief See in reference to Station 16 Headquarters in Downtown Salisbury.The Chief was VERY clear that they do NOT intend to keep that Station open. Once the new location is open they intend to vacate that location and it is up to the City to determine what they will do with it.
Let me make this very clear to everyone reading this. Mike Dunn was so afraid I was going to get up and make an announcement last night, he had me thrown out before I could do so. The reason he threw me out was because he knew I was going to make a formal offer of $250,000.00 CASH as the very first bid offer to purchase the Old Fire Station 16.
Now, my personal opinion is that this Station should be kept open and the last two photos should tell you why. I couldn't care less what Chief See, Barrie Tilghman, Mike Dunn or Gary Comegys says, the pictures are worth a thousand words. Downtown WILL become the result of what we have seen in West Salisbury. IF a building catches on fire, IF the Draw Bridge is up, it WILL delay their response and these old buildings will receive severe damage.
Barrie and ALL her FOB's see a GRAND opportunity to make West Salisbury the new FUTURE of Salisbury. Look at it Folks, Sassafras, Westwood, the new $10,000,000.00 Fire Station, new affordable housing projects, they're heading West and they know they can get these properties cheap!
They did it to North Salisbury, it only makes sense. The Mayor creates her CDC and starts taking away homes from the poor and their plan is to steal these properties as cheap as they can, move these people out of there and start rebuilding where there is no water and sewer. All the while, making it look like she's doing everyone a favor. Shanie is falling for it hook, line and sinker!
Me personally, I'm not stupid, Whenever the Mayor starts doing "anything," it doesn't take very long to figure her out. Shanie, you're always asking me if I called you an Idiot on the Blog. I have not done so as of yet but after you read this post and you continue down the path you have been on with Barrie & Co. I'm without a doubt going to call you an Idiot then because you're doing your constituents no justice whatsoever. Open your eyes Girl and see the light!
If I am not mistaken but aren't both of those burnt out structures on the west side of the river? So maybe they would've gotten there sooner from the new firehouse...
ReplyDeleteThat's exactly right. HOWEVER, that's the entire point of this post. What will happen to the Downtown area once they relocate to the West side of Town? We can clearly see what kind of response time they had on these two structures. Do you get it now?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, is cypress st that much farther from downtown?
ReplyDeleteI think the real issue at hand shouldn't be the building location but, who will staff the pieces.
Lets say in the perfect world the old firehouse is retained. Who will staff it? Volunteers? Sure. They have still to respond from their houses. At 3 a.m. not much traffic no big deal.. However, 5 p.m. its gonna take awhile for the volunteers to get to the firehouse.
So the distance to downtown is void if it takes 2-3 minutes for a volunteer to respond in traffic to the firehouse.
Not a bad point justhav'nalook.
ReplyDeleteThen the next question should be, should the City sell it as a surplus item or give it away to a group who is notorious for failing in the arts business, getting properties donated to them and then selling them off and not giving anything back to the group that donated it in the first place?
Like I am saying publicly, I will start the bid at $250,000.00 CASH!