Saturday, January 13, 2007

Downtown Condo Tower A Failed Project



Who could have predicted that Bakersfield, another Valley town, would have no need for a massive downtown condo project? Look no further than Sacramento and the recent shutdown of the Saca Tower. See the recent story in the Sacramento Bee. Look at the picture in the Bee story, other than their project looking nicer, the outcome is exactly the same. Take a few minutes to read the readers comments at the bottom of the Bee story.

From today's Bakersfield Californian comes an update on the failed downtown condo project. Looks like another out of town investor, this one from San Diego, has become the greater fool in their search for "gold" in Bakersfield:


Artie Niesen, owner of Front Porch Music, is tired of it.


Jan Fulton, owner of Spotlight Cafe, is frustrated by it.


And downtown resident Dennis Harrison is just plain mad about it.


The "it" in question is a virtual junk yard adjacent to the old Padre Hotel downtown that includes discarded refrigerators, rusting hot water heaters, mounds of gravel, piles of scrap metal, broken beer bottles and used diapers, all visible behind a temporary chain-link fence at 19th and H streets.

It's disappointing enough that Pacifica Enterprises LLC, the owner of the partially refurbished Padre building, appears unable to commit to the project, say area business owners.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

ML#: 27000791 AD: 10908 Meacham Rd

$240,000 and they forgot to leave out, man shot to death in living room.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
ML#: 27000791 AD: 10908 Meacham Rd

$240,000 and they forgot to leave out, man shot to death in living room.
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Should have said forgot to mention man shot to death in living room.

Bakersfield Bubble said...

We have scooped the MSM on all of these bubble stories. LOL. They are at least one week behind.

Rumors all over the place of two more going down, of course nothing in the MSM right now...