8/11/2023 0 Comments Beaconjournal![]() ![]() ![]() “I would like to emphasize that we are not giving up on saving the building,” Gantz told Akron council’s Planning Committee members Monday afternoon. Murphy and Gantz said meeting all four requirements was “an impossible task.” They also said Capstone made the effort “to seriously search for a viable” reuse. “The owner has been taking care of” the property. Councilman Jeff Fusco, who chairs the Planning Committee, asked if the property is deteriorated. “I think everyone here agrees that the building is significant,” said Murphy. The other requirements, which must all be met in order to get a certificate to demolish, are that the structure “lacks historic or architectural significance,” that owning the property “is not technically or economically feasible,” and that the commission determines “there is no feasible alternative to demolition.” The owner would have to run afoul of city ordinances to let the building fall beyond repair. But in order to demolish a historic landmark, the owner must meet four requirements, the first being that the building must be “so deteriorated that its integrity has been irretrievably lost.” City law requires private property to be maintained. The property’s new designation as a historic landmark, however, presented the new owner with a Catch-22. Twenty months later, Mouron went back to the city, this time seeking permission to demolish the building after failing to sell the property in deals sweetened by the tax credits. ![]() Mouron went to Akron council in February 2021 seeking historic landmark status, which allowed Capstone to add state and federal historic tax credits to other possible tax breaks that would have made it more economically feasible for someone to retrofit and reuse the one-use building. Sought-after historic landmark status now blocks demolition Murphy, who also serves on Akron's Urban Design and Historic Preservation Commission, acknowledged Monday afternoon that her client is keenly aware he may have to go to court. If Mouron can't get one of these mystery buyers to bite, he would have to go back to the Akron Planning Department with a different plan, perhaps to tear down less of the building, or sue the city for the right to realize the economic potential of a parking lot on his private property. The architects would not speak in detail about the interested buyers, saying that all parties are under non-disclosure agreements regarding the potential deals. In an afternoon committee meeting, Mouron's architects, Justin Gantz of North Canton and Elizabeth Corbin Murphy of Perspectus Architecture in Cleveland, said the developer still has two potential buyers with plans to reuse the property, but they're running out of time and interest. The International Game Fish Association says a fish is ineligible to win if is suffers damage "prior to landing or boating the catch, caused by sharks, other fish, mammals, or propellers that remove or penetrate the flesh."Īs a result, the tournament title and $2.77 million first prize went to the boat Sushi, which reeled in a marlin weighing 484.5 pounds.The former Beacon Journal building stands vacant at High and Exchange streets in downtown Akron. Tournament officials released a statement on Sunday: "It was deemed that the fish was mutilated before it was landed or boated and therefore it was disqualified. NEVER MISS A MOMENT: Follow our sports newsletter for daily updates “It’s the final hour, the final day and we fought with him for six hours,” Sensation captain Greg McCoy told The Washington Post. However, when tournament officials went to weigh the marlin, they found a chunk missing from its side and disqualified it. A 619-pound blue marlin was disqualified from a fishing tournament in North Carolina over the weekend because of apparent bite marks on its flesh, depriving anglers of more than $3.5 million in prize money.įishermen on the boat Sensation believed they had landed the winning fish at the 65th Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in Morehead City, N.C., hauling in the year's first catch to surpass the 500-pound mark (and earning an additional $739,500 in the process). ![]()
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