In the Times-Standard’s continuing series about the draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for big box fan Rob Arkley’s “Marina Center” project, a not-too-subtle hint is dropped that Wal-Mart would be willing to step in if the proposed Home Depot fails.
In the event Anchor 1 (Home Depot) is the one to shut down, the report finds that it could be re-tenanted because large format retail stores have shown interest in Humboldt County in the past.
Well, no kidding. Not only has Wal-Mart “shown interest” in Humboldt County, it’s shown interest in that very spot. In 1999 Wal-Mart ran a deceptive campaign to convince voters to change the zoning on the Balloon Track so it could hawk its sweatshop wares on the waterfront. Eureka gave a resounding “No!”
But it looks like Arkley believes in second chances — and dismissing the will of the voters. As he famously said, “If you’re me, do you really care what the city thinks? I don’t want to have an alternate plan out there because it might not be what I want.”
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He meant he didn’t care what the City meant, City Hall, not the general population. I remember the comment. He was talking about what that particular City Council would vote for and City officials. That’s how I took it.
what the City THINKS, I mean.
The way it’s turned out, it appears he doesn’t care what either the City or the voters think.
Well, he does seem to care what Larry Glass thinks.
Measure J was a vote not to change the zoning from Public to Commercial, right? So it doesn’t matter what the store is that becomes Anchor 1. 61% of the voters in Eureka said no, we want the zoning to remain Public.
Gee, I thought in our Constitutional democracy the Government has been elected with the authority to represent the people. Don’t prosecutors file criminal cases in court on behalf of “The People”?
For the past eight years haven’t we been often reminded that supporting the Government is patriotic and vice versa. Dissent is patriotically exercising the Constitutional right of grievance. Saying, as Arkley has done, that you “don’t care” what the Government thinks , is sedition.
I’d like to see Wal-Mart come to Eureka. Not because I’d shop there. I’d just like to see Heraldo blow its top.
Many of us remember how mad Arkley was when the voters overwhelmingly turned down the zoning change for the Balloon Track. I distinctly remember him boosting “I’ll buy it and I’ll put Wal-Mart and my offices there!” No one should be surprised at his end game. It’s not about business with him, it’s all about sticking to Pierson and try to have revenge.
“I distinctly remember him boosting “I’ll buy it and I’ll put Wal-Mart and my offices there!”.
I don’t remember that.
This is truly ridiculous. No one would let Wal-Mart in. Home Depot is a shot in the dark too. Big Box retailers are failing everywhere.
Jeff, there are some who would let them in. Unfortunately the majority of the Eureka City Council among them.
I’m sure that another Measure J would suffice. Not only that, but they would have to get bigger trucks in. That’s not going to happen.
It also appears that the Eureka Reporter hijacked the Slime-Slander.
Thank Goddess for the NCJ, when they print something with relevence.
You are pretty good too, Heraldo.
Thanks, Jeff.
I don’t know if the T-S has been hijacked, but there’s definitely reason to worry.
And yet, they keep opening new stores. I don’t think “failing” means what you think it means.
Heraldo, if you buy a house, and the guy who was gonna make an offer on the house, but didn’t, telling you how to decorate? What color to paint it?
Or would you say, “If you’re me (the buyer/owner) do you really care what he (the guy who didn’t buy it and isn’t paying for it) thinks?”
Why is that concept so difficult to grasp?
Aside from your difficulty with complete sentences, the ladies on HGTV would disagree with you. If you’re trying to sell a house in a tough market, and your walls are painted hot pink, it would be wise to take the advice to replace it with a neutral color.
yeah, I lost the part of the sentence that said: Heraldo, if you buy a house, and the guy who was gonna make an offer on the house, but didn’t, starts telling you how to decorate, telling you what color to paint it – what are you going to say?
Would you say, “If you’re me (the buyer/owner) do you really care what he (the guy who didn’t buy it and isn’t paying for it) thinks?” I can pick my own colors.
And if you like hot pink – who cares? It’s YOUR business. Not his.
If you’re trying to sell a house in a depressed market, it might be wise to rethink the hot pink. Unless you don’t care about selling for a lower price, or not at all.
What’s the point?
He was BUYING the property. IT ALREADY WAS HOT PINK. No one else wanted it, heraldo.
He bought a fixer-upper.
“The low vacancy rates of existing shopping centers indicates stable performance and the ability to re-tenant smaller vacancies as they occur.”
Um, the EIR was authored by ESA, and they’re a reputable company. However, they apparently didn’t take the time to drive up from the Bay Area to look at Eureka. The Bayshore Mall looks like the set of another sequel to “28 Days Later.”
ESA didn’t bother to drive up Crescent City and see the devastation from Wal-Mart and Home Depot.
12:09 has not visited Crescent City in ages, if ever.
The city is doing well and things continue to improve. Perhaps the best example is the rise in median household income. It’s always been lousy, but in 2000 it was $20,133 and in 2007 it was estimated at $25,067… in a historically depressed regional economy amid a slumping national economy. You can’t spin success into failure. Sorry.
I’m going to depress you even more. Not only does CC have Wal-Mart and Home Depot, but it recently got or is getting a Starbucks, Walgreen’s and US Cellular office. National chains aren’t taking an interest because of the population up here (28,893 county-wide in 2006), but because Crescent City is experiencing urban renewal.
True, CC couldn’t support both a Wal-Mart and a Target, but each national chain that fills a niche in the market is thriving up here and independent storefronts are opening around them.
Next time you want to pontificate about Crescent City, I suggest you visit first.
I get your hot pick analogy, Rose.
The Bayshore Mall looks like the set of another sequel to “28 Days Later.”
Not true. There are lots of shoppers, and most of them are carrying bags. That means they are shopping. Borders is busy, Gottschalks is busy. Hit Topic is busy, Sears is busy. Ross is very busy. Even Mervyn’s with its faux low prices is pretty busy.
Across town, Target is busy, as is Costco – and Old Town is bustling. Arcata was also busy – people are shopping.
The precipitous drop in gas prices is one factor. Christmas, of course, another.
But don’t go all doom and gloom just yet.
Thanks, Anony.Miss.
Did anyone see Old Town last night? It was packed with people wanting to be out and about, people in restaurants, listing to all kinds of street music, visiting all the art galleries and stores featuring our local artists. It was wonderful to see people out- hundreds. It was packed! I thought I was somewhere else, like Monterey! It was just nice to see people enjoying the season.
“listening” not listing!
P.S. Arcata had a busy night the night before- did anyone see if that was a busy?
I was just in Crescent City last month. All the state employees at Pelican Bay are the reason wages are up. I saw many vacant store fronts. I talked to some locals who implored me to “not let this happen to your town” WOW Starbucks and Walgreens real signs of economic health. National chains don’t fill niches thats what local business do.
People long to be part of a community and that’s what I saw last night. As much as I enjoy chain stores for practical shopping, the heart of a community lies in its local stores.
Too funny Heraldo..so you are in on the hush-hush deal with BILL PIERSON in final negotiations with LOWE’s to buy Pierson’s out? You dick-head.
Didn’t Walmart buy up Gottshalks not too long ago?
We went to Ferndale Friday night for a bit of dinner and forgot it was Ferndale’s Hospitality Night. It was early, so we got seated right away. Main Street was decorated with such holiday spirit. The waiter at Curley’s told us that the restaurant had been slow, but there were many people dining there on Friday. As we were driving out of Ferndale, there was a long line of cars driving in for Hospitality Night, including a CHP that pulled on driver over to the side of the road.
Maybe it is still being discussed, that is Walmart buying Gottshalks:
http://www.networthsolutionsinc.com/press/WHAT%20IS%20GOTTSCHALKS'%20FUTURE%20%20May%2027,%202007.pdf
Try this link:
http://www.networthsolutionsinc.com/press/WHAT%20IS%20GOTTSCHALKS'%20FUTURE%20%20May%2027,%202007.pdf
Sorry, I guess one will have to cut and past the above link into a browser.
Try googling Walmart buying Gottshalks, too.
You’ve moved from fantasizing to outright lying. The prison wage scale has not changed in that time. Pelican Bay opened in 1989. Explain to me how prison wages raised the median household income $5000 in 6 to 7 years. By your logic, I’d be a wealthy fat cat by now. Stop your lying.
Anony.Miss, Arcata was dead on Friday night, except for the parent/Santa contingent on the Plaza that headed into the Storehouse for ice cream and the toy store afterward. In store after store I entered, I was the only customer, or there were one or two other customers. It’s in stark contrast to, well, it’s unprecedented. I’ve never seen it this bad before.
Oh, and the Plaza poles were lit up around Santa, but the usual amazing light display around the Plaza buildings was gone. Many of the stores looked closed, even though they were open.
Anony.Miss, I agree with your comment that the heart (or as I would say, the soul) of a community is its local stores. However, I would disagree with your contention that because most of our stores are busy with holiday shopping now, our overall retail economy is strong. Check in again in these same areas in February, and see how busy they are, including and especially, the Bayshore Mall. That would be more indicative of the strength of local retail, and thereby give one a better idea of how the proposed Marina Center would impact our town.
We’re still waiting for attribution for Ms. Olson’s “4% commercial vacancy” statistic, which a priori, strikes many Eurekans as either false or an outright manipulation.
Anonymous (10:13) is absolutely right on. I know that the wage scale has not changed, as I know people who have family members that work there.
I remember when it opened. I was among a group of people who got to tour it when it was completed.
The bottom line is median wages have not changed in Crescent City because of Pelican Bay.
My comments had more to do with the fact that it was nice seeing people out enjoying their community. It was packed in Old Town last night. They were there for many reasons, but I believe sharing the company of others and seeing what’s up in our town, getting into the holiday spirit, etc without necessarily shopping or looking for bargains were what brought people out. Community spirit.
I don’t think I said anything about the economy being strong- this wasn’t about the money.
Anony.Miss, I was merely contrasting your Eureka experience with my Arcata experience. I didn’t discuss profit and loss, only the number of people in attendance. It’s pertinent whether the stores looked open only because they are/were supposed to be the gathering venues for the entire community on a cold winter night.
I didn’t have lively discussions with anyone except business owners/employees because they were sitting alone staffing hors d’oeuvres tables.
Heraldo omitted the part that says the anchor store is designed to be divided into smaller stores in the event of HD failure.
That’s doesn’t mean it will be divided. And what large retailers seek to move into a smaller, divided space?
I’ve always feared HD failure, but this could be an exception.
10:55- I was speaking to average eurekan about the economic thing. That’s too bad about Arcata not being busy Friday night- they are usually the town that is busier. I hope they have another community event in Arcata- I really enjoy Arcata’s events. The lights on the Plaza look beautiful too!
Arcata is normally busy and will be busier as Christmas approaches, as people realize they can’t find what they want at the Mall (which is mostly clothes), they will be coming more and more into Old Town and Arcata for the unique and interesting items.
I was at Arts Alive! too – it was awesome – as always!
Well Heraldo, maybe several local retailers would move into that space. You need to think outside of the box.
Anon 12:40 If you do the math, you’d find that the Crescent City annual median income increase rate was 3.18%.
During that same period, the annual US inflation rate was 3.65%.
So, the value of Crescent City median income actually fell a total of about 3.5% between 2000 and 2007.
I overheard Rob two years back gloating about putting Pierson’s out of business at Avalon.
I overheard Rob two years back praising Pierson’s and wishing them all the best in their business endeavors.
That’s interesting NAN, except salaries rarely keep up with the inflation rate, certainly not state jobs. Think up another excuse for why Crescent City isn’t thriving. Better yet, try visiting and seeing the renewal for yourself.
Crescent City Real Estate Listings:
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3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1,710 Sq Ft on 0.55 Acres (23,958 Sq Ft Lot)
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Property Type: Single Family Home
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0.35 Acres (15,245 Sq Ft Lot), 8 Units
Property Type: Multi-Family Home
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Property Type: Single Family Home
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4 Bed, 2 Bath, 1,819 Sq Ft on 5.7 Acres
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Sure, there’s some $249,000 homes, but it sure don’t look too depressed…. How many million dollar plus homes do we have?
You might conclude they have a bunch of retirees moving into the area that can afford those houses, and not need jobs, I guess.
Humboldt County has million dollar homes. I guess that means we don’t need a Home Depot.
Ooops, here’s an opportunity:
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Property Type: Single Family Home
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Property Type: Land
$139,500
2 Bed, 1 Bath, 825 Sq Ft on 0.33 Acres (14,374 Sq Ft Lot)
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Check ‘em out.. see why they need Home Depot :)
Here’s a good one!
Sold AS-IS. Take a look and be creative!
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OHHH! Even better!
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That must be the blight.
Very cryptic, rose. What’s your point?
anon, first at 12:40 you claim median income increase in CC is a “success”. Then at 7:28 after I proved there is no real income increase you say salaries “rarely keep up with inflation.”
Well, salaries that are actually increasing must exceed inflation, by definition. If a salary isn’t keeping up with inflation then it isn’t increasing and its certainly not a “success”. So, you’ve contradicted yourself, with no acknowledgement of that. Either you’re simply stupid, don’t understand money, or qualify as today’s anon troll.
I was in CC in July, camping on the South fork of the Smith and stayed at a motel in town one night. I walked around a bit and found the “downtown” area depressing and sterile. First time in a long time that I ate at Denny’s, nothing else open. Don’t know where the Home Depot is, maybe thats the “good” side of town. But the downtown area I saw looked pretty bad.
Heraldo, if you buy a house, and the guy who was gonna make an offer on the house, but didn’t, telling you how to decorate? What color to paint it?
Or would you say, “If you’re me (the buyer/owner) do you really care what he (the guy who didn’t buy it and isn’t paying for it) thinks?”
Why is that concept so difficult to grasp?
Rose, presumably the seller in your scenario is no longer impacted by any of those decisions. And in fact there are plenty of subdivisions in which the sellers retain properties in the vicinity and thus sell the property subject to covenants which protect the seller’s interests. Besides which, the city government is not just any seller. It has aggregate interests to protect. So in effect, the city does retain the power of zoning to dictate precisely what Rob Arkley can do with the property, and more specifically the right to refuse to grant a variance. Arkley purchased it without the variance. Was there anything in the sales contract to mandate the variance?
In any case, it’s a moot point. The city council will have to grant a variance, or turn it over to the voters. The former would probably lead to recalls. The latter probably wouldn’t generate any better results for Home Depot than for WalMart 10 years ago, not without some strict assurances on a litany of points. One concern raised by some activists is that they will promise Home Depot then do a bait and switch to bring in WalMart on the same variance. Can a variance be Home Depot specific? I doubt that would survive the Equal Protection Clause.
Arcata is normally busy and will be busier as Christmas approaches, as people realize they can’t find what they want at the Mall (which is mostly clothes), they will be coming more and more into Old Town and Arcata for the unique and interesting items.
I can tell you that I am cutting back my Christmas shopping from last year.
Arkley didn’t buy a “fixer upper”. He bought a pig and is now trying to put lipstick on it. The property he bought is zoned public. “Fixing up” a house doesn’t mean changing the zoning to commercial and then using it for a whole different purpose.
Thats more like buying a residential home and then “fixing it up” to a commercial grow house that will net $100,000 a year instead of having a hardworking family living there who make $24,000 a year house payments, socialize with the neighbors, and join the PTA.
Gee I guess the community really is better off with the grow house there. It provides jobs to trimmers and sales to the horticultural stores. And its what the community wants, if no one wanted to buy their product it would go out of business.
Everyone should have choices. People who now drive down to Petrolia for their product can have the convenience of shopping locally. And the competition will lower prices, so people can use more of the product and live happier lives. I can write that DEIR, if I’m told to.
I can’t think of much good about a grow house. Not much good at all. I consider this to be one of the most significant problems in our community right now.
Perfect NAN, tie Arkley with grow houses. What’s next? Is Arkley a Nazi? Wait, don’t tell me, he sacrifices kittens to Satan?
Sigh. Your war of words knows no bounds.
The Santa they had in Old Town Saturday was the best ever he treated my kids so well and listened to all their wishes even though there were lots of kids!!!
WAIT! Do you mean to tell me that you accept a LOWE’s coming in but not a HOME DEPOT????
What is UP with that????
Let’s let Fortuna have the Lowes, and just move on.
Erik Kirk said 12-7 9:01 PM:
“Besides which, the city government is not just any seller. It has aggregate interests to protect. So in effect, the city does retain the power of zoning to dictate precisely what Rob Arkley can do with the property, and more specifically the right to refuse to grant a variance. Arkley purchased it without the variance. Was there anything in the sales contract to mandate the variance?”
Arkley did not purchase the property from the city – it was directly from the RR. The other RR properties in various areas that were written about previously that citizens of those areas got to participate in what would be built on those properties were owned by those cities. I think that goes along with Rose’s point about doing what you would like with a house that you own. If Eureka had purchased the property, then I think that everyone should have had a say in what was built there but a privately owned property should be able to go through just what is happening a DEIR, etc. and even ask for a variance on the portion of the property that is zoned public. I don’t think it is all zoned public though. There is a waterfront property that the city does own next to a dock – possibly 5 acres – that the city decided to lease for a motel/hotel to be built. That is zoned industrial. How is a motel industrial? No one complained much about that one and it won’t even give the city increased funds from a property tax raise they will only get a small amount of tax from the lease.
Several years ago at a Marina Center meeting, I asked a SHN engineer about the contamination and he said the property has been cleaned 7 times and that the Adorni building sits on land that is still more contaminated that the Balloon Tract. A higher up from NC Water Quality was also there and confirmed the same thing. Doesn’t mean there isn’t still contamination but what about the Adorni site? Tear it down and clean it up? Just asking.
Newsflash folks – the majority of Eurekans are ok with the balloon tract development. We are really sick of the blight and the waste. I think a lot of folks that are opposed to it are from other areas like Arcata.
I do believe a majority of Eurekans support Home Depot coming.
I’m not so sure about a majority of Eureka voters.
And I’m personally disappointed in the Times-Standard’s regurgitation of the EIR.
How about some analysis? Why has a news organization abdicated this role to blogs? Or has it only abdicated it in this one case, and if so, why?
There is no reason to let Union Pacific off the hook for a single micro-gram of the toxic stew they have mixed up on that property. The fact that arkley & company assumed liability for the situation is no reason to expect a lesser cleanup than would be possible with the very deep pockets of UP. That is the bad decision of team arkley. Tough scat for them!
As for the Adorni Center property and others around the town/area where the responsible parties are no longer living (in the cases of real human owners), or are no longer in existence as economic entities (in the case of corporations–which lets the criminal decision-makers off the hook), then communities need to pursue clean-up through grants and other less effective means. This is not the ideal situation, but neither is it a good reason to allow impunity for offenders that can still be compelled to remediate their crimes against the community.
As for letting the owner of the property do anything they want with their property, the house sale analogy fails in that a buyer of a home cannot buy a property then put in an oil refinery or other development that is out of compliance with zoning.
Cadmium, lead, pm10, ozone and the other toxic pollutants, as well as the increased traffic safety hazards that will all put my families health at risk are not a question of paint color. That is a frivolous analogy that reaches the level of insulting given the potentially fatal consequences of disease & traffic collisions. Gosh Rose, what about the little babies on bikes dodging the diverted traffic and sucking down poisonous air into their tender young lungs. Your callousness is chilling.
There is clearly no loss of any property rights here whatsoever if the city chooses not to allow the requested zoning changes. In fact, there is a clear assault on MY FREEDOM to be healthy in the air my family and I breathe and to be safe from increased traffic in the neighborhoods (in our city with one of the highest rates of ped & bike vs car accidents). Let alone the extra time I could be forced to wait in the more congested traffic.
These are direct costs to me and mine and direct assaults on my freedom safely and securely to live in the town where I choose to live.
The city is under no obligation to approve zoning changes that will cause “significant, adverse and unavoidable impacts” to their citizens.
As for the harm of Urban decay, anyone who wasn’t here to witness the painful twenty year recovery that old town and downtown was forced to suffer through after the opening of the bayshore maul should not be making ridiculous claims that Urban Decay will not result. And if someone was here and still denies the evidence of their own eyes from those days, well feel free to speak to any of the ever-shrinking group of local merchants still around from those days. They’ll tell you in grim detail the decay that set in.
WE, the citizens of Eureka, have a vested interest in that property through the zoning designations we have enacted. We are not required to re-zone it in such a way that will harm our community as the current big box maul project currently proposed will clearly do. It says that it will do so within their own environmental document.
There is also the question of why we have not had our City government AGGRESSIVELY pursuing a clean-up before now. Maybe for a future Herald posting.
build it dammit!
Anything will be an improvement over what is NOT happening now.
Hey Toxic Stew – just interested now – do you wear one of those paper masks like they do in Japan? You sound just a little over the top. Makes me wonder why you live in such a polluted area.
The Fortuna leaders want every bit of Urban Decay a big box will bring to the Friendly City. Average Eurekan, the 4% you keep asking for pales in comparison to the EIR books being cooked in Fortuna to justify a major retail center. It would be nice if more people cared about what these Einsteins are planning to do to the ENTIRE Fortuna retail economy let alone the effect on a Piersons and other hardware stores in Eureka!
WalMart is scarey
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2004/3103waltons.html
Next time link to factual analysis, not unadulterated opinion.
The self-appointed Humboldt Herald police speaks again.
Unadulterated opinion on a blog? What will they think of next?
We need a Wal-Mart Delivery service. Buy it from Wally World and mark everything up a penny! You can buy Wal-Mart goods at every “Mom & Pop” store in OldTown Eureka.
http://www.youtube.com/walmartcorporation shop on-line!
Oh dear!
Oh dear, oh dear!
I dared suggest that when someone posts a link to support their stated opinion that the link lead to factual information that supports the person’s position. Crazy me! Now I understand progressives. No facts! Just tell us what we want to hear! You guys take the cake.
WE take the cake? PFFT… and your Fox News team of crack reporters, like Hannity, Oreilly, and ROVE….. they pack the airwaves with FACTS????
hahahhahahahahahahahahaha. GAME OVER. I would lay a bet you dont even have a college education.
Sorry Billy, I don’t watch Fox news, nor do I care for Hannity, O’Reilly or Rove. All arseholes.
All I wanted was for the guy to back his opinion with something more than additional opinion. Silly me. Live in the dark ages if you want, but I prefer an educated life.
Oh, but I have to ask… Billy, what’s so wrong with facts? Why are you afraid of them?
Jesus, know what to pick a fight over. Don’t pick it over someone asking for evidence. It makes you look like a ninny who don’t know or doesn’t want to know.
FACTS are like Statistics in this day and age. You know, like WMD, like the TARP program, like electronic voting, like the last 8 years war on science by a dogmatic born again regime… you want “facts”?
Show me some examples of your “Facts” and I will counter them.
Jesus was a liar
Wow Rose! Are you a realtor too, when your not on Arkley or Maxxam payroll?
I say build a big old honkin’ super duper Wal-Mart in Eureka. Anywhere in Eureka will do. I live in Fortuna and like my town it just as it is. Eureka is already ruined, so let’s put it there…I don’t think WalMart would build 2 that close together, so if Eureka gets one, Fortuna will be spared the devastation that WalMart would bring to one of the last of the great big-box-less towns in NorCal…I really don’t mind driving north to tweakerville to buy my fruit of the looms. Gives us Eel Rver Valley folks something to do on rainy weekends, and it’s a good learning tool to point out all the druggies to our children as we pull into town and warn them that “this is what will happen if you do drugs”…you’ll end up toothless on the streets of Eureka, Ca. with the rest of ‘em.
Wow,
Home Prices, my favorite topic.
First – an asking price is an asking price.
Second – mark-up is mark-up =profit
Third – transactions are transactions = historical sales lists show mark-ups.
Fourth – Retirees, uber wealthy, etc. who can afford the tax base = will sit on the price until they get what they want; which could be a very long time in many instances. Superinflation relates to NOTHING.
Fifth – look at some of the former lumber producing, fishing producing communities along the Mendocino Coast. Depressed local communities with EXTREMELY HIGH ASKING PRICES. Sales and ASKS are completely opposing WORLDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Proper Correction = Starter Homes maximum $200,000!
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District