Colonial Heights Debacle Starts

I've written before about Colonial Heights buying the old Colonial Heights Baptist Church. This situation has turned out like just like I projected.

In the RTD today, there is an article about how the "informed" citizenry stopped the demolition of the old church.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for citizens getting involved and stopping things they think are wrong. But most of the arguments for keeping the building is in the name of history. What the heck? Who cares? It's an old church. The sanctuary was remodeled long ago, so there is no significance.

My concern here is that the citizenry of Colonial Heights will now have to pay to sustain the property. This is a huge building. That type of upkeep won't be cheap. Plus, the city council has stated they won't do anything until, get this, next July! Also, according to today's RTD article the city has had the property appraised at $4 million which is about what the city paid for it. So add in the cost of taking care of this building for a year and what do you have? A LOSS.

Poor managment by the city. Stupid ideas by the citizenry. This is shaping up to be quite a mess.