{"id":3716,"date":"2007-04-24T18:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T18:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3716"},"modified":"2017-11-29T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T19:55:32","slug":"thats-the-difference-a-couple-million-dollars-buys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/thats-the-difference-a-couple-million-dollars-buys\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s The Difference A Couple Million Dollars Buys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=594840\" target=\"_new\">Art foundation defends properties:<br \/>\nIs this Fox Point mansion a multimillion-dollar house or a museum? Some neighbors want it on the tax rolls.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When is a museum a museum and not just a tax dodge? That&#8217;s the question raised by residents who want two Fox Point mansions worth at least $3 million restored to the tax rolls.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbors are calling on the Village Board to re-examine a nearly 20-year-old agreement with the Chipstone Foundation that declared its property overlooking Lake Michigan a museum, granting it tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n<p>Not many have set foot inside the Georgian-style mansion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If that property belonged to you or me, gentler reader, the commmunity would have already stripped its blighted eyesore from us and turned it over to a responsible developer who probably has the proper financing for an elegant strip mall.<\/p>\n<p>But with millions of dollars available for defense, the local government must observe some decorum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art foundation defends properties: Is this Fox Point mansion a multimillion-dollar house or a museum? Some neighbors want it on the tax rolls. When is a museum a museum and not just a tax dodge? That&#8217;s the question raised by residents who want two Fox Point mansions worth at least $3 million restored to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18130,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3716\/revisions\/18130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}