Minneapolis Puts Screws to Businesses Wrecked by Riots

[rangerrebew]

 Aug 14 2020
Minneapolis Puts Screws to Businesses Wrecked by Riots

In the aftermath of Black Lives Matter riots, Minneapolis still looks like a warzone. The same municipal bureaucrats that allowed the riots to happen continue to put the screws to the owners of ruined businesses by requiring them to prepay taxes on their ruined properties for the second half of 2020 before granting them a demolition permit.

Cleaning up so as to begin rebuilding is expensive enough for business owners. Via the StarTribune:

    [N]early 100 properties in Minneapolis were destroyed or severely damaged in the riots following the death of George Floyd. The vast majority of those properties are either still standing or have been turned into ugly and often dangerous piles of rubble. …

    Cleaning up that mess is expensive. Most property owners must pay $35,000 to $100,000 to clear their sites of debris, with larger tracts — such as strip shopping centers — costing as much as $400,000, according to property owners. That doesn’t include the money those owners must pay to get their permits.

https://moonbattery.com/minneapolis-puts-screws-to-businesses-wrecked-by-riots/

[rustynail]

Cheaper to just walk away?

[XenaLee]

Can't those business owners just sue the 'municipal bureaucrats' that caused the destruction in the first place by allowing the chaos to occur?   If not, that is something that should be corrected.   

Unless or until these cretins allowing the chaos are held accountable, it will continue and get worse.  And this is just one example of  how the left doubles down on their victimization of anyone participating in what they hate.... Capitalism.  Those business owners deserve to be destroyed for daring to live and work towards the American Dream.... since the American Dream hasn't been "fundamentally transformed" into that Leftist Nightmare quite yet.

[goatprairie]

If I were one of those business owners whose building was destroyed by the riots, I would get a good lawyer and sue the bejeesus out of the mayor and the city of Minneapolis and the governor of Minnesota, two craven, cowardly Dem pols.

[DB]

Just abandon the property. Let the city clean it up. You have to be insane to rebuild there.

[XenaLee]

Just abandon the property. Let the city clean it up. You have to be insane to rebuild there.

Do you really think that the city ""leaders"" wouldn't fine the hell out of anyone that just walks away.... to the detrimental effect that the business owner would probably never be able to own or open another business anywhere else...?

[DB]

Do you really think that the city ""leaders"" wouldn't fine the hell out of anyone that just walks away.... to the detrimental effect that the business owner would probably never be able to own or open another business anywhere else...?

I believe the city's only real recourse would be to seize the property. And if you leave that city they have no further reach regarding any future business.

[XenaLee]

I believe the city's only real recourse would be to seize the property. And if you leave that city they have no further reach regarding any future business.

Let's hope that turns out to be true.   Remember how vengeful and lawless these leftists are.

[Fishrrman]

Rustynail, that's the first thing I thought after reading the thread title.

Why bother any more in a place like that?
Gather together whatever you have left, and get the heck outta there.
There must be somewhere else business owners can go and rebuild.

If they rebuild there, they're just gonna get looted and burned out again.
Probably in short order.

[DB]

Rustynail, that's the first thing I thought after reading the thread title.

Why bother any more in a place like that?
Gather together whatever you have left, and get the heck outta there.
There must be somewhere else business owners can go and rebuild.

If they rebuild there, they're just gonna get looted and burned out again.
Probably in short order.

And the cost of insurance will be extreme.