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What you see above is 1400 Main Street, directly across from the Davis Building and next door to City Tavern. Right now, it's but 11,000 square feet of nada, a 1954-built building on the tax rolls for some $2 million that isn't generating a cent in tax revenue for the city. Which is why, at tomorrow's marathon end-of-the-year city council blowout, the council will likely approve a development agreement with the building's owner, Brian Foster, who's promising to invest $4 million
Last week, while working on this week's cover story in the paper version of Unfair Park, I discovered that the owners of 508 Park Ave. have filed with the city a permit to tear down the former Warner Brothers Film Exchange, built in the late 1920s. Long story, available soonish in a rack or on a computer screen near you, short: The city's cracking down on vacant downtown building's worst code violators, and it considers the building in which Robert Johnson recorded in June 1937 among the worst o
Downtown’s real estate barons are terrified that Perot-Hicks’ slick Victory project could wreak havoc on their own tax-funded plans to fix the city’s core
