{"id":8389,"date":"2010-11-12T07:17:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T13:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8389"},"modified":"2011-11-14T22:50:24","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T04:50:24","slug":"that-shell-is-empty-but-theres-a-peanut-under-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/12\/that-shell-is-empty-but-theres-a-peanut-under-this-one\/","title":{"rendered":"That Shell Is Empty, But There&#8217;s A Peanut Under This One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please, keep the tax dollars flowing; although the Ballpark Lofts II building in St. Louis, funded in part through giveaways and tax credits is going to foreclosure, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/article\/20101112\/NEWS01\/11120343\/Heer-s-not-in-danger-of-foreclosure-developer-says\" target=\"_blank\">the Heer&#8217;s Building in Springfield handled by the same developer is ship-shape<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A downtown St. Louis property developed by Heer&#8217;s developer Kevin McGowan has been targeted for foreclosure, but McGowan said his loan on the Springfield building is not in similar danger.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported on its website that Bank of America has filed legal notice that it plans to foreclose on the Ballpark Lofts II building owned by a limited liability corporation McGowan formed with former partner Nat Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>Renovated as condos and offices, the building is at least partially occupied.<\/p>\n<p>McGowan said Thursday he plans for his new company, Blue Urban, to purchase the building by buying the loan made to the earlier LLC before the Nov. 23 foreclosure sale.<\/p>\n<p>He said the notion Heer&#8217;s was targeted for foreclosure is &#8220;a false rumor&#8221; being spread by the project&#8217;s detractors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>His company couldn&#8217;t pay the mortgage on the property, so his new company might buy it at the foreclosure auction.<\/p>\n<p>God Bless America, and by &#8220;America,&#8221; I mean the people with the chutzpah to do that sort of thing and the municipal governments that continue to enable them.  And by &#8220;bless,&#8221; I mean something else entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please, keep the tax dollars flowing; although the Ballpark Lofts II building in St. Louis, funded in part through giveaways and tax credits is going to foreclosure, the Heer&#8217;s Building in Springfield handled by the same developer is ship-shape: A downtown St. Louis property developed by Heer&#8217;s developer Kevin McGowan has been targeted for foreclosure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-springfield","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389","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=8389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10446,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8389\/revisions\/10446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}