City of Quincy facing eviction

Trouble in court pending?
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– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

 

City of Quincy facing eviction.

 

The Koch Maladministration’s free spending and all too often ill-planned ways appear to finally be coming home to roost:  FX Messina is seeking a court order to evict the City of Quincy from continuing to use a parking lot in Quincy Center that it had been renting from Messina since June of 2016. 

 

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The lease expired in June of this year; however, the City of Quincy has opted to squat on the property after Messina opted to not extend the lease.

 

The City of Quincy says it has continued to sent rent checks to FX Messina.

 

To date, however, Quincy Quarry has yet to be able to find out if the checks have been cashed. 

 

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In the meanwhile, the Quarry suspects that either the rent checks have not been cashed or have instead been deposited into an escrow account to properly as well as separately hold the funds in this manner of dispute.

 

As per Mayor Thomas Koch’s usual practice, he is yet again proposing to throw money at his latest problem.  

 

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His proposed resolution: pay Messina $6.8 million per an eminent domain takings; however, he does not have the City Council’s approval to effect such a property taking.

 

Not that not having approval has ever stopped him previously.

 

That and so what if the price Mayor Koch has offered to buy Messina’s property is roughly 350% greater on a per square foot basis than what Mayor Koch arranged to sell a comparable, if not more prime, city property earlier this year to a favored developer.

 

Does A City on the Move needs a slug of Medimucil?

No small reason for Mayor Koch’s more than several-fold premium price offer is that pursuing a municipal eminent domain taking in court to buy a parking lot for use as a parking lot is unlikely to prevail absent such a massive premium given all manner of technical reasons arising from the seminal US Supreme Court ruling in the matter of Kelo versus the City of New London.

 

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That and how the City of Quincy is variously obligated to provide transitional parking capacity as it sells off and otherwise takes out of service municipal parking capacity in Quincy Center as Mayor Koch continues his ever-increasingly expensive as well as even less compelling plans for “A New Quincy Center.” 

 

In other words, Messina has Mayor Koch by his short hairs.

 

Source: FX Messina moves to evict Quincy from parking lot

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