While Code & Compliance closed down and condemned their building last week, here's a view they couldn't see. Notice the roof structure. FOB or not, their business is still closed. Has anyone heard of any article in the Daily Times about this building being condemned?
If you look cloesly there also appears to be a major crack in the brickwork between the 4 windows? Who is responsible for making sure that buildings are safe in Salisbury?
ReplyDeleteIf they cant afford this what about the taxes, there has to be back taxes on this thing.
ReplyDeleteThose of you using Doug Church's "Private T1" service (It's really DSL with no service level agreement) need to know that his equipment is in the Feldman's building. You could lose your business Internet service any day now!
ReplyDeleteThat's ok...just means more customers for MDBC when they get fiber to the plaza.
ReplyDeleteIf David Miller is suffering financially then it is his own fault!! That building had the beginnings of becomming a death trap when he as he drove Ethan Allen to the ground years ago. Alot of people lost their jobs due to David's negligence in taking care of his responsibilities. This is no more than he is capable of and did the same thing to his Pocomoke store.
ReplyDeleteFeldman Brothers, Inc. of Salisbury and Feldman Brothers, Inc. of Pocomoke were ONCE thriving business both family run and employed lots of happy satisfied employees........alot that had given Feldman's the best years.......not to mention many happy customers that were loyal!
It was and IS David Miller's own GREED that has gotten him into this predicament. And just like that mold growing on the walls of that run down store, his greed has been growing.
It is such a shame that David never had the pride his father did.
8:34, in David Miller's defense I'll remind you that things in the retail business have changed so much over the years, unfortunately. G & K and Erwin's were two other once-thriving furniture stores that could not survive when downtowns began to die and "big box" stores became prevalent. I have visited many towns like Salisbury, where furniture stores have gone out of business and are being used for other purposes such as selling antques. To maintain the buildings, many of which are very old like Feldman's, requires a great deal of cash. Rentals and 10% commission (11% at Feldman's) cannot begin to supply the cash needed to keep old, large buildings "up to snuff." Just paying utility bills will quickly use up what money is generated. Just think about all the towns in this area where this is true: Snow Hill, Berlin, Seaford--any town. The same goes for clothing stores. Where are Benjamin's, Lee Johnson's, Hess Apparell, etc.?It's just one of the sad by-products of "progress."
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ReplyDeleteThat's a great idea. Service goes down, they can't bring it back up, and all the businesses downtown wait until MDBC gets fiber into downtown (whenever that is).
I would call Comcast or Verizon today, and skip the waiting part.
9:13. What you state is quite true. Lots of wonderful stores have fallen to the larger stores.
ReplyDeleteThis does not give anyone the permission to operate in a building that is unsafe.
There is mold growing all over the inside of that building. Water is dripping from the ceiling. The smoke detectors are beeping from the need of fresh batteries. The elevator door is open wide enough for a small child to get through. The steps leading into another part of the store are so cluttered you can't use the handrails. Plus there is only one way in and one way out. That's a real safe place to shop.
Look, I enjoyed going into that antique mall to browse. What I am saying is that I can not understand how anyone could be proud to operate under those conditions and can only say that those nice people that have their goods in there must really, really love what they do to enjoy those working conditions.
Regardless of the amount of money it takes to operate a retail business in todays times the fact still remains that even if David Miller had the funds to keep the building safe he probably would not do it.
It's not lack of money all the time.........sometimes it's just a case of not being responsible. That building has been falling apart for years.
What took so long to condem it?