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| Subject: Scumbag rights violator: St. Petersburg mayor wants to revive ‘dead’ properties by forcing them to auction Wed Feb 18, 2015 4:58 am | |
| ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - The city of St. Petersburg has a new idea for breathing life into “dead” properties: Ask a judge to force them to auction. Mayor Rick Kriseman is targeting more than 400 properties in legal limbo sprinkled across nearly every city neighborhood. No one can buy the properties because it’s unclear who owns them, or the owner is unreachable or unresponsive. The Midtown neighborhood, one of the city’s poorest, has the greatest concentration, stymieing reinvestment there. The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/1FYO3yb) reports that it appears the city would be the first in Florida to pursue such a broad legal strategy to get dormant properties back in play for private investors or non-profit affordable home builders.
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