Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Officially Dead?

Driving through Town Center today I noticed that the silt fences have been removed from the site of the former proposed WCI Plaza Residences tower. The site sign inviting all to “Live Beautifully” has also vanished though the now closed sales center is still set up in the former Exhibit Building. I suspect that this only because it is still under lease.

There is no mention of the project on the WCI Communities website either. The company filed its bankruptcy reorganization plan last month and expects to emerge from bankruptcy in the third quarter of this year.

I further suspect this prime piece of Town Center real estate will soon be available for sale.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Next step: Barbara Russell will be imploring the Executive and the Council to buy the lot and turn it into a park, since god forbid someone should buy it and return it to business use.

Anonymous said...

We all learned a lesson about development of the WCI tower from Lloyd Knowles and what's his name who lives in Lakeside. It doesn't matter how stupid you are, you can still stop progress. WCI tower would have been a nice addition to the downtown, increased values, and anchored the development of a vibrant, landscaped, family oriented city around Lake Kittamaqandi(sic)
Vote Liz Bobo out of office in the next election. We need real representation in Annapolis. It's time that she and LLoyd retired.
HH

Anonymous said...

I hope someone builds a Walmart on this site... too bad it's not large enough thought it would be poetic justice..

Anonymous said...

or a used car lot.

Anonymous said...

or even better, I church with a large, purple neon cross.

Anonymous said...

Maybe Corridor Liquors in Laurel could open a second Liquor superstore. Great location...

Anonymous said...

how about a cell tower?

HearTheCase said...

The crux of the opposition's claims is that the WCI tower violates specific sections of the County's zoning regulations.

If the County/WCI and their attorneys, Office of Law/Richard Talkin, hadn't stonewalled the legal case for over two years, the courts would have long ago heard the case and rendered a decision, based upon the law.

WCI is an example of where the County/developer strategy of legal delay has come back to bite them.