City of Troy sold this property to McBain Electric back in Feb or March.

Dartlady check your facts

I was at the council meeting when the council approved the sale. If that proposal was rescinded, it was not publized.

Ok unclesam, just went down there and drove into the parking lot. There is INDEED a City of Troy recycling truck along with several of the speed limit reminder thingees they put up to tell drivers how fast they're driving. If McBain has indeed withdrawn their proposal (which would actually make sense since they bought the old Collins Lumber property) that would mean that the city still owns the old Tire Warehouse. I agree 100% that if the city is going to OCCUPY a building, it needs to maintain it! Of course, we are talking about the same powers that be that have failed to properly maintain ANY property - including our city hall - that they own. I will be certain to mention this at the council meeting on Thursday.

Thanks for looking Dartlady. Keep digging. I can't understand why the City of Troy keeps thinking they are in the real estate business.

Troy should not be in the real estate biz for sure.

I see that 14 oakwood ave is in the cities 3rd foreclosure auction. It didn't get any bid in the last 2 auctions... back when all the utilities were still hooked up to the building (they're all disconnected now) and the DPW workers hadn't ripped the entire heating/plumbing system out for scrap metal!

What makes the city think it's going to get a bid NOW?! LOL!

Jiminy crickets!

For sure unsecured vacant properties, whether they are city-owned or privately owned, have indeed been stripped of their copper piping yet accusing our own city workers of perpatrating the thefts is a pretty serious allegation DPW Scrappers. No wonder you used an alias when posting. I believe you're blowing smoke up the wrong hole.

I am not alleging anything. I saw it with my own 2 eyes. I'd swear on a stack of bibles and my grandmothers grave,

A short-ish slightly overweight guy with a buzz cut & grey hair probably 48-52 years old and his much younger coworker... dark hair, overweight and about 22-25 years old.

Older buzz cut DPW guy driving city truck, opened the city owned building for his equally old friend who was driving a 1990's dark blue ford pick up truck (not a city truck). They proceeded to ruin the stair treads as they dragged the heavy vintage cast iron heating registers down the stairs on a hand truck and then loaded them into the blue ford truck.

Do the DPW workers really think no one is watching them in broad daylight?

I am sure that this is not an uncommon practice.

Dartlady you really need to remove those rose colored glasses that you see life through.

They left the building unlocked. Come over, let yourself in and have a look around. All the damage to the stairs and all the missing plumbing and heating system... that was in fact the short buzz cut grey haired DPW workers doing.

I would swear to it as I saw it with my own 2 eyes.

That would make you an eye witness then. I don't wear rose-colored glasses, I just prefer to think positively. I can not make these allegations on your behalf. Only you can do that. I hope you reported it, even if you felt it would do no good. Unless We The People take action, nothing will change.

A couple years ago I watched a thief taking items out of this property through a back window, He was sliding long aluminum ladders out the window.

I called the police and do you know what the dispatch said... ?! He wanted to know how I knew it wasn't the property owner himself taking the items?! How did I know it was a thief!? He basically argued with me while the thief removed the goods.

The dispatch did finally relent and send an officer. The officer arrived about 15 minutes after I phoned and the thief was long gone by then.

That's the reception I got for reporting a real theif stealing real things out of the property. Imagine the response I would have gotten if I called and said... Hi, the DPW workers are removing all the metal out of the city owned building.

How do you know they aren't supposed to be taking the metal?

It's just not worth the hassle and aggrivation calling the police for anything other than a serious issue.

Well ya cut the grass but "your building" still needs attention

@Unclesam: Talked about it at last night's council meeting not that I necessarily expect them to replace the windows immediately...hahaha...

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