{"id":758,"date":"2007-08-14T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamfranklin.com.php53-27.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com\/?p=758"},"modified":"2012-08-13T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T21:23:50","slug":"fight-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamfranklin.com\/fight-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight!!!……Fight!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There is a huge battle <\/strong>brewing between two factions concering “in-filling” downtown Columbia real estate. Get ready. This will get ugly in the name of each party’s definition of “beauty.”<\/p>\n

If you haven’t seen, read or heard, Belinda Gergel wasted no time in grabbing the microphone for her cause (she is running for city council), calling for a 6 month moratorium on various building\/tear down projects in the city. Ben Arnold’s demo job of the 78 year old Heathwood farmhouse was the springboard for her to screw a deadbolt in this plank of her political platform. Who can blame her?<\/p>\n

On the other side are many developers, builders, contractors and tradesmen. These folks firmly believe that what they do is good for downtown Columbia (Enter Brian Boyer’s city council bid). They have a great point. For example, I’m not sure the new Rosewood, would be what it is today without some creative development and risk taking builders in-filling and tearing down old junk, and replacing them with fresh 2005’ish style homes. Go ask anyone that has lived in Columbia, SC for over 20 years if they would ever think that a house in Rosewood would fetch over $130.00\/ft. They would look at you like you had 7 heads. Well, welcome to the new Rosewood. Furthermore, the new Columbia, SC. <\/p>\n

A meeting has been called by local developers\/builders at 1:00, Tuesday. The purpose is to build a response to Mrs. Gergel’s proposal. To listen and learn, I will be there with bells on.<\/p>\n

This is probably another case of both sides being “right,” if even a little bit. Having said this, I’ll wager that we can find a better way. I hope that this fight stays within the bounds of being for the greater good, and not simply a political football. If nothing else, a full scale moratorium is a job killer, which I hope no one wants. <\/p>\n

I have to inject that I have sold many Columbia homes that were in need of improvement. I must say too, that I am glad that I did. An improvement in my personal examples have been just that, an improvement.<\/p>\n

More to come…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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