Yard Waste Site Part 2 - Adding Insult to Injury
This is a follow-up post to the previous post "What a Waste of a Yard Waste Site" found elsewhere on this blogsite. As if the original loss of a great yard waste site wasn't enough, now this news comes out of how undervalued the property was at the time when Kronenwetter sold that land. It turns out that even with a left-hand thread, the screw job that the Village got under the "leadership" of (then) President Chris Voll, Village Administrator Richard Downey, and particularly Community Development Director Randy Fifrick, was worse than we knew. It appears that after Kronenwetter's staff-promoted an ill-advised, under-informed sale of the 29 acre yard waste site property to the neighboring granite pit owner Mitch King for something like $258,000, King has recently sold the operation including Bevent and Reid properties for a cool $3.5 million. The county land records show that the total value of the land in th...