Monday, September 11, 2017

New Tenant For St Mary's Commercial Space

Several weeks ago I posted that there was activity renovating the St Mary's commercial space for a new tenant. That tenant's sign is now up on the building, but I'm told that this is the first-floor tenant, and there will be a massage therapy group on the second floor.

You can find the most comprehensive update to the story, with a fuller photo of the very attractive building from the other direction, in a post here from November 2015. Fr Barker undertook construction of this building with Citibank's predecessor after TEC was forced to issue a quitclaim on the property about 1984. The land itself was gradually acquired from property surrounding the parish under Fr Jordan. Citibank vacated the property in October 2015 at the expiration of its 30-year lease.

The arrival of tenants now provides the parish with a substantial income. Among other things, I'm told it enables the parish to re-hire the gardener. However, the outstanding issue of the 2014 mortgage the Bush group took out on the property without having title must still be resolved. A trial for damages against Mrs Bush and other defendants, including the ACA, will take place this coming November.