[LISTEN] Free Online Seminar for Property Owners Living in Historic Tax Districts is Wednesday
JAMESTOWN – Residents who live in three different Historic Districts in the city are invited to attend a seminar on Wednesday night that focuses on historic tax credits.
The Wellman Building, 403 Lakeview Ave., and 11 Broadhead Ave. are all properties that have an opportunity to participate in the Historic District Tax credit program.
The three districts are the city’s Downtown Historic District, the Lakeview Historic District, and the Forest Heights Historic District.
Properties located in these three districts are eligible for both
New York State and Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credits that can cover as much as 40% of qualified rehabilitation expenses.
Jan 30, 2021
We have a slight quibble with Mayor Eddie Sundquist’s State of the City address last week that is symptomatic of something we have noticed from Sundquist’s first year in office.
The mayor does himself no favors when he makes statements that can be easily refuted with a quick Google search.
For example, Sundquist said Monday during his State of the City address that for the first time in decades, the city has allocated funding to improve neighborhoods and provide direct funding to homeowner to make necessary repairs to their homes.
It’s not hard to see that statement doesn’t hold up to the slightest bit of scrutiny. The city has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years in Community Development Block Grant dollars on activities like housing demolitions, owner occupied housing repairs, rental property repairs, targeted code enforcement sweeps in eligible neighborhoods, Zombie Property work going back at least six years and partnering with non-pro
Dec 17, 2020
If Mayor Edward Sundquist and the Jamestown City Council are serious about fixing parking downtown, they have an unused asset in Pete Miraglia.
Miraglia, a former board member of the Jamestown Renaissance Corporation and a longtime downtown business owner, presented a report to the council on downtown parking. Between May and August 2015, Miraglia conducted 17 surveys of on-street parking, surface lots and the three downtown parking ramps.
In other words, other than parking enforcement officers, there aren’t many people who know more about parking downtown than Miraglia.
“In the almost 20 years that I have been actively involved downtown, I have felt that the parking system has been downtown’s greatest impediment to growth,” Miraglia said recently to The Post-Journal. “When I visit very active and successful downtowns like Saratoga Springs, and Owego, who offer free on and off street parking, I wonder why Jamestown continues to make coming to downtown so