{"id":4024,"date":"2007-09-20T01:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T01:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2017-11-24T15:38:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T21:38:14","slug":"will-no-one-rid-me-of-these-turbulent-property-owners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/20\/will-no-one-rid-me-of-these-turbulent-property-owners\/","title":{"rendered":"Will No One Rid Me Of These Turbulent Property Owners?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/1DE71DB16A1143FA8625735B0079E398?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Disin<i>genius<\/i>!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But Conrad wasn&#8217;t able to acquire the properties targeted for development.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The city put out the request without having control of any of the land,&#8221; [Conrad Properties President Craig] Saur said. &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t get key parcels under contract at a reasonable price. Sellers wanted higher prices than was economically feasible for us to develop the project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>He didn&#8217;t want to use eminent domain to acquire the land, Saur said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to be in places we are wanted,&#8221; he said. &#8220;<b>If the city could get control of the land<\/b>, they would probably have a lot more developers interested in the project.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Surely Saur doesn&#8217;t think the city can make a better cash offer for the land.  What does he expect them to do, use the Scooby Doo method?  No, he&#8217;s saying that he won&#8217;t call for eminent domain, it would just be nice if eminent domain just happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disingenius! But Conrad wasn&#8217;t able to acquire the properties targeted for development. &#8220;The city put out the request without having control of any of the land,&#8221; [Conrad Properties President Craig] Saur said. &#8220;We couldn&#8217;t get key parcels under contract at a reasonable price. Sellers wanted higher prices than was economically feasible for us to develop [&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-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","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=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17826,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions\/17826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}