The new owners of 130 and 132 East Main Street are seeking application from the Board of Zoning Appeals and from the Salisbury Historic District Commission to construct a 12-story building across from the Post Office Building. This is located in the Downtown Historic District and the current zoning restricts building heights to 75’ and residential density to 40 units per acre. The project would require approval of a building 185’ high (the height of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge) and density of 340 units per acre.
I have not seen this matter widely covered. The Mayor seems to strongly support this project. The public, including the neighboring property owners, seem to have been unaware of the magnitude of this venture.
A hearing before the Historic District Commission is scheduled for March 27th at 7:00 p.m. and the Board of Zoning Appeals for April 10th at 6:00 p.m.
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Building by today's construction standards and awful architecture will make this project an eyesore and a liability in under 20 years.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the cityscape of downtown, this will be like a giant middle finger raised to everyone.
Build it
DeleteDies the often complained about Fire Department have the equipment to battle a fire in a building that high? If not, then require the building developers to purchase the equipment for the city prior to building the tower.
ReplyDeleteIf Mayor Day is for this project, then who's pocket is being lined?
If the Salisbury Historic District Commission okays this request it will definitely raise some questions, as in what the Commission stands for and its very purpose, who convinced the Commission to do so, and how the members were convinced.
ReplyDeleteOh we can't bring a certain restaurant to town because their sign would be too high but we can possibly build a building, in a historic district, that is way, way out of proportion to other surrounding buildings? This is just like the Jussie Smollett story,( what we want we get, what you want is a no go. ) Stinks to high heaven!!
ReplyDeleteOf course the mayor would approve. An infant has more common sense then he does. If they are going to approve this then the first step needs to be getting rid of the whole Historic District concept. No sense in having one if they aren't going to follow the rules and guidelines.
ReplyDeleteA lot of it’s going to depend on what the building is being used for not wanting to divulge too much information as Joe doesn’t want to either which is understandable at this point in the “ talk” Heard a few different things about it but a lot of it’s going to really look rely on what business is going there or what the building is going to be designed for. I don’t see the benefit of making it the headquarters to house the county sheriffs department And combine the whole unit or if it’s going to be office space for a business or for government buildings like we need any more of those in Salisbury...I’m just waiting for Joe to post what it is they want to building that size four that’s when the real comments will start rolling....
ReplyDeleteIt either is going to benefit LARMAR CORPORATION and the Rinnier family or Gilliss Gilkerson. Those are the ONLY two players in Salisbury that the mayor would sell out for. I truly wonder the kickbacks he's getting. I rode through Salisbury today and three different commercial development projects going on ALL being done by Gilliss, UNREAL
ReplyDeleteOh no not Rinnier. He didn't complete Rowen's Mill in Fruitland. Owns alot of property there but is not building causing the community to support abandoned project. Rinnier moved on to building apartments and left Rowen's Mill owners high and dry. Can't prove it but I think he to bed Peter to pay Paul in that project and probably still is.
DeleteRemind me just what is so Historic about this downtown it looks like every other old empty downtown. Wait five years and anyone with nostalgic notions about it will be dead.
ReplyDeleteThis is as bad an idea as the CITY FESTIVAL, the blue things in the street to show where fire hydrants are, The orange bicycles, tearing down all chain link fences downtown, taking down the fences around Riverwalk so no one would drown. Yep another Jake Day attempt for the FAME CLOUD that hovers over him. He's a little old don't we all think for the tooth fairy.
ReplyDeleteThis is the Davis Simpson group who came up with this bad idea. Blair Rinnier is way to smart to do a looser project like this. Even boy wonder Bradly is a little smarter than to do something like this even though he does come up with some zingers. When this project gets 1/2 way complete and goes belly up we will be stuck with a 1/2 built eye sore that will cost the tax payers. This is bad for Salisbury !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe owners plan to utilize the building for off campus housing for students at SSU. The City's plan is to dedicate the top floor of the parking garage for the use of the residential occupants of the apartment complex, with a "walk over" from the garage to the new building. They contemplate that the ground floor will be used for retail space.
ReplyDeleteThis and Fake Day's plan to develop the open parking lots will cause downtown to be a constant major traffic jam that is much worse than it is now. Jack Lenox must be pleased to be out of there for good.
ReplyDeleteGreat views over looking a slaughter house a ghetto and an open sewer! Can’t make this crap up! What’s next? Maybe strip clubs?
ReplyDeleteIs it going to be Farmers Bank of Willard's new office building?
ReplyDeleteIt's a great idea. Salisbury suffers from sprawl and could use some upward building instead of more outward.
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Parking for so many residential units?
And fire department abilities to service such a structure?
Sounds like a very poor concept.
Same Yahoo!’s that own old plaza building. Sloppy work on remodel job. Somebody padded somebodies pocket to get past inspections on the shoddy work done there
ReplyDelete@10:49 pm same old idiots that think we should develop every square inch, let any and all illegals into the country. My question is when are you morons going to realize that your resources and infrastructure can't handle all the added consumption?? They've been running above limitations for years dumbasses. There's actually part of the country that has limited water resources and you all say sure let's just run the well dry (literally) because I want to provide resources to people that a actually are hee for bad intentions
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