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Century To Hold Envision Century CRA Area Meeting
February 18, 2018
The Town of Century will hold a Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) meeting Tuesday to “Envision Century”.
The meeting will work to vision the Century CRA 10 years from now, plus determine the goals, values and priorities of the CRA area.
The meeting will be held from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday at the Century Business Center at 400 Pond Street. Refreshments will be served with a meet and greet at 4:00, and the formal presentation and discussion will begin at 4:30.
The town previously declared a portion of Century as “blighted” as part of the process to form the CRA.
Once the CRA is in place and operating, it will work to improve conditions within the area. As property tax values rise, most of the increase is funneled back into the redevelopment area for further improvements.
The CRA area is 510 acres, bounded by Jefferson Avenue to the south, Jefferson Avenue to the east, State Road 4 to the north and the centerline of North Century Boulevard to the west. It also extends north on the east side of North Century Boulevard to include commercial properties up to, and including, the former Burger King. Click here for a detailed map (pdf).
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9 Responses to “Century To Hold Envision Century CRA Area Meeting”
@Chris
I know that is why they have to look at the sides of the road like some one else riding through. This is not in the CRA but the sides of the road through 29 need to be critically looked at. Even PVC markers falling over and pipe stobs in the right away …start at the state line and go all the way through left and right. The town over took the contract to do the road maintenance there. Write this down put in a work order. Sraighten those leaning pvc pipes pull up the rusty ones get that snipe signs of the telephone poles . Get the sawmill signs down put it in shop and paint it. Why are buildings still empty and abandoned through there?
Assign the street worker to get the addresses and turn them in.
Town council CRA why do you let it stay like that. Is everyone scratching and waiting for the other to do it. Guess who’s doing it?
No One…
That’s my envision that you open your eyes.
See something say something and how about this Do Something.
The best start here will be to beg the county to come in and use their legal expertise and do the best they can with staff to clean it up and condemn it as a public nuisance.
The town doesn’t have the resource and it they spend a ton of money to abate it entirely and then just attach the lien to it and back taxes or it will sit there empty forever.
The reasonable and I think the only solution is to ask then to take it and hope that they will. If they own it then they can put it to some kind of use.
Then and only then can this CRA begin to start to function and Century continue to recover.
It’s not just the rusty sign, it’s the whole “living in the past” mentality. To most outsiders, Century is an embarrassment and a joke. No real business entity is interested in investing capital in a town that doesn’t take care of itself. Drivers don’t stop there, they floorboard it and bypass it completely.
Do you want the county to own the old sawmill and put in a dump? I’m telling you. Town of Century, town council, you are on this CRA.
Google Robert McBride put in keywords Navarre Gullf breeze, Fairhope..track him down and get clear title.
You must be prepared to answer these questions. Will you negotiate with the county to get the clouds off the title
Pick up the phone as council member and call and find out the county’s plan? Are you satisfied with it.
Ask commissioner May what he thinks about a concrete crushing site in a neighborhood.
Cleaning up the Alger Property and especially doing what it takes to return it to the tax roll is tantamount. It has 90K in back taxes, liens for code, tax certificates on title, a county estimate to attach at least about a million to it if they clean it up. It will never sell like that. I am not coming to a meeting for cookies and shake hands and say ….ghezz wish somebody will clean this up. Its obvious. Waiting for the plan.
http://www.northescambia.com/2018/02/century-tornado-two-years-later-county-town-cant-afford-to-clean-up-damaged-sawmill
A functioning website, with budget agenda, online records, accounting and financials in order– things turned to the auditing committee on time, especially forming this new special district with these regulations on them. Let us see the TIF building up in the CRA account.
Think *Transparency Florida..it’s a real thing
Make sure all the outside grants brought in are also clearly indicated for transparency and public trust to include the SHIP and CDBG, Department of Economic, and EPA grants fund.
Let us see these PUBLIC dollars are spent on the PUBLIC.
Right
The sawmill sign could come down with two nut and be repainted. It is all over facebook and in pictures. I have mentioned this a few times.
Yeah after a while people finally say..Hell with it.
Well duh.
What is going on with the Alger Sawmill Property?
Are you in contact with the owner, what will he do? Have you found him and asked him if he is willing to give it away and perhaps the town take title as public lands? Robert W. McBride. You do know how to find property owner with in the proposed district do you not?
Is he able to grant a clear title or is it still tied up with the Limited Liability Company, DMT Holdings?
What will happen with the liens with the county?
Have you negotiated them away? Or at least had them looked at?
Can you tell the citizens how the 500K grant for cleaning up the Brownfield was spent, especially after the audit? Do you still have it?
Can you answer these question here? ahead of time?
Change the Future Land Use to Low Density residential at One Lumber Road. You do NOT need an industrial use near the homes. You have an industrial park.
Envision Century 20 years from now. Umm, rusty old sawblade sign, no jobs, inept leaders. Just like today.