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I City buys, condemns properties
| as pare of redevelopment plan
I By James Lillis
J Senior Reporter
The city of Lincoln has bought two
pieces of property and condemned two
I others on Block 35 as part of the city’s
| downtown redevelopment plan, a may
oral aide said.
Businesses in Block 35 — surrounded
1 by 10th, 11th, P and Q streets — have
been chosen for relocation by the
former Mayor Roland Luedtke and the
Lincoln City Council.
Fred Briggs, supervisor of real estate
and relocation for the city, said negoti
ations to buy a third piece of property
are underway.
Briggs said some of these properties
may be considered for demolition to
build a parking lot for the remaining
businesses. He said that if the City
Council decides to demolish the prop
erty, the lots could be filled with
parked cars within six to eight months.
The owners of Block 35 businesses
may stay where they are until at least
Nov. 1, 1988, Briggs said.
After that, the city may or may not
legally condemn the other Block 35
businesses under the laws of eminent
domain, Briggs said. If that happens,
payments for those properties will be
set by the courts.
Until that time, Block 35 businesses
who have neither settled with the city
on a price for their property nor
requested that their property be con
demned will be in a state of limbo.
Dan Longoria, co-owner of Arturo’s
on 11th and Q Streets, said he is frus
trated because he doesn’t know7 how
long he can stay at his present location.
“I don’t know what we’re doing yet,”
Longoria said. “We’re still debating
whether to add a new restaurant at the
east end of Lincoln.”
Eric Gregory/Daily Nebraskan
Cindi Lewandowski walks by the boarded-up buildings that
line the north side of Block 35 on her way to work at Arturo's
Restaurant.
Longoria said he doesn’t want to
move because he would lose college
patrons.
“Our main clientele used to be stu
dents and faculty from the music and
art departments," he said.
Longoria said there’s another rea
son: the city’s offer for his property.
“We would like to settle with the
city, but the price they offered would
only pay for the new equipment,’’ Lon
goria said.
He said the original offer the city
made would not begin to help buy or
lease the new property. Longoria
requested that the city’s offer not be
made public.
Briggs said that the businesses out
side of Block 35 are being appraised to
find out how much the property is
worth as part of the retail revitalization
project. He said these appraisals will
he completed by Dec. 1.
"We’re not going to march in to take
their property," Briggs said.
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