Quick Update: Dominion Ministries pulls out of Dillard St. / Cleveland-Holloway
Dominion MInistries, which had intended to build a lockdown facility for youth with behavioral disturbance at Dillard near Holloway (on land given to them by the city and land they owned) has made a decision to pull out of the Cleveland-Holloway neighborhood and build a facility elsewhere, according to Jim Wise in the N&O's Bull's Eye blog. The group still plans to build a facility, perhaps outside of Durham County. Hopefully, if they decide to keep looking in Durham County, the County government/Durham Center will require community engagement as part of any site selection process.
Coupled with news that Scott Harmon/ Susanna Dancy are the high-bidder (unchallenged in the upset) for the 218 Dillard land, this is the brightest outlook the Cleveland-Holloway neighborhood has faced in many years.
Speaking of the land transfers, the Roxboro St. parcels did receive a new round of upset bids during the second 10-day period. The high bidder was one Barbara Jackson, who bid $106,000. I don't know who this is. The city will meet at their next work session to approve the bids. Presumably, the Dillard St. parcel will then be purchased by Scott Harmon / Susanna Dancy, and the Roxboro parcels will enter another 10-day upset period.
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3 comments:
Sounds like DM's got a case of sour grapes! Or, they finally realized the jig is up!
Gary,
This is very good news and you deserve a lot of credit for alerting the rest of us to this situation in the first place. The residents of Cleveland-Holloway St. also deserve great credit for organizing the effort to stop this. And the city manager and members of the city council who voted to rescind the transfer deserve credit. I will even go so far as to say that Dominion Ministeries deserves a little credit for not attempting to force their project on this neighborhood.
In my Hall of Shame: Madame Diane Catotti who voted to go ahead with this land transfer and lectured the neighborhood on their "tone." (How dare they be angry!) I would suggest that readers of this blog should ignore endorsements by the Friends of Developers, Aging Hippie Alliance, and the Co-Dependent Weekly and think for themselves. If you can't find three decent candidates to vote besides Countess Catotti, you're not looking hard enough.
Great news -- I'm willing to give DM the full benefit of the doubt here. I think that out of the city meeting on this, the folks at Dominion did get an idea of just why their facility wasn't a good idea for that location. I'm with Mona from C-H on this one -- for the sake of the kids in the lockdown facility, DM needs to put it somewhere easy on the mind, rather than in the middle of a neighborhood struggling to turn itself around.
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