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Ultimatum for Central Warehouse Owner, Will he Comply?
It's been a long decaying road for the massive concrete Central Warehouse building in Albany, but now it appears everything is falling apart both literally and figuratively for its owner, Evan Blum.
Chunks of concrete were falling from the building on Friday, causing Amtrak to cancel all westbound service to and from the Albany-Rensselaer Train Station through the weekend. The city of Albany declared a state of emergency over worries that one of the walls was about to collapse. Crews worked to fix up the crumbling wall and Amtrak resumed service on Monday.
On Tuesday, Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan announced the city is giving Blum ten days to make the necessary repairs or face further citations. Ironically, he's already been flagged by the city for previous violations according to Mayor Sheehan:
He has been cited multiple times. He has been made well aware of what needs to happen to this building. And yet he has not done so.
The city has already spent over $100,000 in making quick repairs to some of the damage, but those repairs don't even scratch the surface of what needs to be done. Code enforcement officials say garbage needs to be cleaned out, concrete staircases need to be stabilized, and windows and entrances need to be covered.
Blum already owes over $500,000 in back taxes on the building and has repeatedly pointed the finger at the city and county for impeding any progress he's tried to make on fixing up the concrete behemoth.
The county has tried numerous times to take over the property, but Blum has filed a total of four lawsuits to block the takeover. Three of those lawsuits have been dismissed, the most recent was filed in federal court with no verdict yet.
If the county takes over the building, they have a deal to sell it to two local contractors for $50,000 and waive all the back taxes. The contractors believe they can rehab the structure with the plan of turning it into a combination of retail space and apartments.
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