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| Tony Gilkerson |
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| Palmer Gillis |
Real estate developers Palmer Gillis and Tony Gilkerson receive the individual award, while Salisbury Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc. is recognized with the organizational honor. Their work will be celebrated during SU’s 90th-year Spring Commencement at the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center on Thursday, May 19.
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Gillis and Gilkerson “are outstanding examples of true civic leaders,” said Robby Sheehan, SU director of government and community relations and chair of the University’s Town-Gown Council. “Over the course of the past several decades, these two individuals have worked tirelessly, both personally and professionally, to build and strengthen the City of Salisbury and the surrounding community.”
This is especially evident in the downtown area, where their vision for the return of a thriving and vibrant corridor has begun to come to fruition. Among their most recent contributions to that goal was last year’s donation of the $4.4 million Gallery Building to SU via the Salisbury University Foundation, Inc. Potential University uses for the structure include centers for entrepreneurship, geographic information systems and the SU Art Galleries Downtown Campus.
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What a joke!
ReplyDeleteThanks for what you're doing and hope that you spend your millions wisely.
ReplyDeleteAwesome guys willing to make investments of their own time and money in Salisbury despite the politicos wanting to tear it down.
ReplyDeleteThe $4.4 million dollar Gallery Building that would have sold for a conservative $350,000 on the open market.
ReplyDeleteHey, we're not stupid out here and know a massive tax write-off when we see one.
What have either of you done for our city or county?
ReplyDeleteAwesome guys who found a perfect place to make a load of money and get the city to give them properties to do it. Yep, these are saints.
ReplyDeleteI'd bet the ranch 5:16pm the "jokester", 7:05pm the "appraiser" and 8:26pm the "Saint" have NEVER contributed any effort to the betterment of the Salisbury Community! Hey guys or gals, why not try something positive for once?
ReplyDeletePayola. BBB and the Chamber love it, and reward in kind.
ReplyDeleteTruth is a totally different subject.
One word describes these two. Shysters.
ReplyDelete(8:39) You must be a relative of one of those two, or a principal at Gillis Gilkerson Incorporated. You are very thin-skinned about the comments people are leaving. This is a place where people leave their comments about personal experiences so deal with it. If you don't like it don't read the story. Not everybody has a positive opinion of these two. These two men hide their reputations behind the people who work for them, that is a fact.
ReplyDeleteDonate your building in such a way that it defrauds tax payers, and get a plaque, too. Way to go guys!
ReplyDeleteSo when SU constructs a building and it costs the taxpayers over $450 per square foot ( no land value) and these two donate a fully functioning , renovated building that is valued at $73 psf this is a bad thing? Sounds to me that the tax payers and the public are getting a good deal perhaps. Let the facts speak for themselves. But most are full of hate and envy so what should we expect?
ReplyDelete1:00pm how about all the people they have stole money from by their crooked schemes? There work is hardly quality.
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