Twin Towers bailout?

@PeoriaIllinoisan : Let them taxes not get paid see who owns it. 3 years of unpaid taxes and it is gone. We pay to live we own nothing.

The towers are not able to maintain their property. Is it due to a lack of tenants, or some other malfunction?

@tntrecycling : Ok, let's role play. You're in charge. What are you going to do?

@PeoriaIllinoisan :
I charge of what sir. First of all the building should supply your money to take care of it if not why would you invest.

@tntrecycling : "City property can do as they please. Why not bring some stores to downtown."You're in charge. Go!

@PeoriaIllinoisan : Well, it seems to have worked in East Peoria's Levee District.

@mypeez :
Levee District, Walmart, etc. only exist because Caterpillar shut down a majority of the buildings in that area, shipped jobs overseas. Then demolished the buildings, cleaned the land, and donated it to EP. 88 acres or so. My dad worked in some of those buildings as a machine repairman, retiring in 1982.If CAT had not done any of that, Walmart, Costco, and Levee District would not exist.
If 88 acres of shovel ready was donated to Peoria, you don't think they wouldn't jump at getting it developed?

@DennisinPeoria : Dude, that ground was far from shovel ready. Sure the superstructure of the buildings was demo'd, but all of the old foundations, pavement and UG stayed. The City of EP was the lead on the redevelopment and structuring of the financing. I offer a working example of how this could work and you jump back nearly 1/2 a century to what was. Didn't CAT build some of the new(er) EP facility to retire the old Holt/Best plant?

@mypeez : You're probably right about land not shovel ready. But still, all 88 acres were donated.
Now, where Walmart is, used to be CILCO's Wallace power plant. When that got torn down, I don't know if the property was donated.

East Peoria welcomes the good, the bad, and the ugly. The best thing they did was land the Embassy Suites.

That ground was VERY contaminated. They trucked all the soil to some incinerator in Texas to clean it, then hauled it back. Some of the work done there was shipped out of the country, some was given to local machine shops and the rest was shifted into existing Cat facilities. (Not neccesaarily in Central Illinois.

@PeoriaIllinoisan :
Funny that they approve liquor licenses for place and allow restaurants, liquor, store smoke shops. Yet will let grocery stores go away.
Funding for the warehouse district got to revitalize them warehouse for people to live. Yet spend the money across the river. What EP has they could have had just not open arms.