From the 10/17/05 Akron Beacon Journal:

 

 

This old house needs a place to call home

Historic Streetsboro structure must move -- again -- to survive

By Paula Schleis

Beacon Journal staff writer

 

Pity the poor Singletary House.

 

The remnant of Streetsboro's past keeps getting in the way of Streetsboro's future.

 

First, the 177-year-old home -- built by the parents of Akron's second mayor -- had to dodge a fast-food restaurant.

 

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/12922630.htm?source=rss&channel=ohio_news

 

sometimes when getting off 480 its hard to believe streetsboro had any history at all

So why can't Wal Mart pony up the $100,000?  Is this how a society should treat people who make an effort to preserve our history?

It looks like it will be saved.  From the 11/4/05 Ravenna Record-Courier:

 

 

Proposal will save historic house Streetsboro home to move

By Deborah Guziak

Record-Courier staff writer

 

STREETSBORO - Col. John Singletary’s home, circa 1828, will be saved as it will become part of the proposed retail development for the Defer property.

 

Singletary’s home was part of a preliminary plan presentation for the Defer property that was presented Thursday to the public in an informal meeting. The 125-acre Defer property is located on S.R. 14, alongside the Ohio Turnpike.

 

http://www.recordpub.com/article.php?pathToFile=/archive/11042005/news/&file=_news3.txt&article=1&tD=11042005

 

From the 12/28/05 (Streetsboro) Gateway News:

 

 

Officials hope to save historic home

by Miles Jung-Kilbreath

Reporter

 

Streetsboro - With six months left until the Singletary house may have to be moved to make room for a proposed Super Wal-Mart next to the turnpike on Route 14, residents and public officials met Dec. 20 to discuss the best option for saving the house. Planning Director Linda Kovacs said is a tax increment financing agreement with Woodmont Co. would do the trick.

 

The meeting also looked at other options if City Council votes against the TIF, which could see a vote during a Jan. 9 Council meeting.

 

Jim Purinton, who is developing the project with Woodmont Co. explained the TIF would allow Woodmont Co. to receive 75 percent of its real estate tax back for the next 10 years. He said that $3.25 million in TIF funds would be put toward a budgeted $5.1 million for public improvement costs, part of which would help move the Singletary house elsewhere in the property.

 

http://www.thegatewaynews.com/article.php?pathToFile=/archive/12282005/news/&file=_news2.txt&article=1&tD=12282005

 

From the 1/17/06 Ravenna Record-Courier:

 

 

Singletary home lacks recognition as historic site

Streetsboro building not on Ohio or national registries

By Deborah Guziak

Record-Courier staff writer

 

STREETSBORO - His house still stands in the city, he is buried in Streetsboro Cemetery and his son was the second mayor of Akron, but not much is known about Col. John Singletary, and maybe that is why people are not interested in saving his 1828 home.

 

Singletary’s home sits in a spot that is slated to become a parking lot for a Wal-Mart Super Center. The discount store is to be the anchor store for a retail/business project for the Defer property, at S.R. 14 and the Ohio Turnpike.

 

Meanwhile, the project developers have included moving the two-story home about 800 feet from its present location, providing a tax increment financing program for the business portion of the project is OK’d by city council.

 

http://www.recordpub.com/article.php?pathToFile=/archive/01162006/news/&file=_news2.txt&article=1&tD=01162006

 

Well, this is Streetsboro... the king city when it comes to approving anything that is an incentive for growth... sucking jobs from Aurora, Twinsburg, Solon, Mantua, Macedonia and I'm sure others.  So I have faith that the building will be moved, sorta...

mantua had jobs to begin with?

^The one of maybe 2 or 3 significant industrial employers is on its way to streetsboro.

From the Gateway News:

 

 

TIF passes first reading, debate looming at third reading before final vote

by Miles Jung-Kilbreath

Reporter

 

Streetsboro - The Woodmont Co. has requested the city remove $500,000 from the tax incremental finance agreement, or TIF, for improving Route 14 along the proposed Streetsboro Commons.

 

City Council unanimously voted for both the amendment to the agreement and the ordinance which would enact the agreement during its first reading, but Council member Chuck Kocisko promised more debate before the TIF is approved. The amended agreement cannot be approved until it has been given three reading by Council.

 

http://www.thegatewaynews.com/article.php?pathToFile=/articles//news/&file=_news1.txt&article=1&tD=

 

From the 2/13/06 Ravenna Record-Courier:

 

 

$2.63 million tax deal on table Streetsboro council to weigh agreement for S.R. 14 shopping project

By Deborah Guziak

Record-Courier staff writer

 

STREETSBORO - A $2.63 million tax increment financing agreement between a developer and the city will be before council tonight for its third reading.

 

The TIF agreement is being sought by The Woodmont Co./Defer Trust LLC for the business portion of a two-phase project slated for the Defer property known as Streetsboro Commons. The 126-acre property is located on S.R. 14 alongside the Ohio Turnpike.

 

A TIF agreement involves a tax break for the company, while ensuring that school districts won’t lose money.

 

http://www.recordpub.com/article.php?pathToFile=/archive/02132006/news/&file=_news1.txt&article=1&tD=02132006

 

From the 2/15/06 Ravenna Record-Courier:

 

 

Wal-Mart site plan gets OK in Streetsboro

By Deborah Guziak

Record-Courier staff writer

 

STREETSBORO - Despite a warning from one of its members, the planning commission gave final site approval to a Wal-Mart Super Center Tuesday.

 

Commission member Jim McIntyre told the commission “I reserve the right to say ‘I told you so’” before casting his “no” vote against approving the site plan. The rest of the commission approved the measure.

 

For months, representatives of the engineering firm, Wal-Mart officials, architects and others have worked to iron out differences in the design of the proposed 206,000-square-foot anchor store for Streetsboro Commons. Streetsboro Commons is the name of the new retail/business development slated for the Defer Property, located on S.R. 14 alongside the Ohio Turnpike.

 

http://www.recordpub.com/article.php?pathToFile=/articles//news/&file=streetswalmart-oldvsnew.txt&article=1&tD=

 

From the 3/10/06 Ravenna Record-Courier:

 

 

Historic home’s fate uncertain

Singletary house in way of new Streetsboro Wal-Mart

By Deborah Guziak

Record-Courier staff writer

 

STREETSBORO - Whether Col. John Singletary’s house faces a wrecking ball or a new location will be decided by May 1 when construction on a new Wal-Mart is expected to start.

 

The federal-style, two-story house built by Singletary in 1828 is located in what is expected to become a parking lot for a Wal-Mart Super Center. The combination retail and grocery store was given site plan approval by the city’s planning commission, and will move to the next step of going before council for approval.

 

http://www.recordpub.com/article.php?pathToFile=/archive/03102006/news/&file=_news3.txt&article=1&tD=03102006

 

From the 3/16/06 Akron Beacon Journal:

 

 

Historic home to be relocated

Companies team up, fund effort to save structure from demolition

By Paula Schleis

Beacon Journal staff writer

 

A historic home in Streetsboro may make it to its bicentennial after all.

 

The 178-year-old Singletary house -- which has been dodging demolition for decades -- will be moved from the path of progress.

 

And its saviors are the folks who posed the most recent threat.

 

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/14111625.htm

 

From the 7/1/06 Ravenna Record Courier:

 

 

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Streetsboro’s Singletary House relocates

By Don Jovich

Record-Courier staff writer

 

STREETSBORO - Imagine the task of moving a 120-ton historic home off of its foundation and driving it to a nearby field.

 

On Friday, the city’s first frame house was moved for the second time in its history. This relocation will make way for the Wal-Mart development project.

 

The Col. John C. Singletary home, built in 1828 and located on the Defer property, was raised up into the air and placed on two steel beams before it was moved to its new location. The house was moved 800 feet from its S.R. 14 site near the Ohio Turnpike,

 

http://www.recordpub.com/article.php?pathToFile=/archive/07012006/news/&file=_news1.txt&article=1&tD=07012006

 

From Crain's Cleveland Business, 7/14/06:

 

 

Streetsboro Commons land bought

By LESLIE STROOPE

1:12 pm, July 14, 2006

 

An unidentified affiliate of Fort Worth, Texas-based Woodmont Co. has purchased 54 of the 125 acres slated for the first phase of the Streetsboro Commons mixed-use development.

 

The commercial real estate investment and brokerage firm bought the property from the Defer family, which owns the 125-acre property, for an undisclosed sum, according to a Woodmont statement.

 

http://www.crainscleveland.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060714/FREE/60714018/1004/rss01&rssfeed=rss01

 

From the Gateway News, 8/30/06:

 

 

Singletary house moves after delay

by Miles Jung-Kilbreath

Reporter

 

Streetsboro - After resting on a truck bed waiting to be moved since early July, the Singletary house has moved to its new home 800 feet from where it last rested.

 

“We’re happy to finally have the house moved,” planning director and Streetsboro Historical Foundation president Linda Kovacs said.

 

The house was built in 1828 by Col. John Singletary in the center of town, making it the oldest home in the city. The arch that adorns the house has become a representative of Streetsboro, appearing in architecture books and on the city seal. In its early years, the house was a local tavern and had the first phone in Portage County, according to Kovacs.

 

http://www.thegatewaynews.com/article.php?pathToFile=/archive/08302006/news/&file=_news3.txt&article=1&tD=08302006

 

From the Gateway News, 9/6/06:

 

 

Construction angers Seminole residents

by Miles Jung-Kilbreath

Reporter

 

Streetsboro - While the work has just begun on the new Wal-Mart SuperCenter on Route 14 next to Interstate 480, residents at the rear end of the 125-acre development say dirt mounds near their homes are making life uncomfortable.

 

“None of you would want to live in my house,” Seminole Trail resident Robin Dombeck told City Council Aug. 28.

 

http://www.thegatewaynews.com/article.php?pathToFile=/archive/09062006/news/&file=_news1.txt&article=1&tD=09062006

 

From the 9/20/06 Ravenna Record-Courier:

 

 

Residents demand halt to project

Zoning questioned in Streetsboro

Don Jovich

September 20, 2006

Record-Courier staff writer

 

STREETSBORO Several residents are demanding a halt to the Streetsboro Commons retail development because they contend the property was not rezoned properly.

 

Attorney Subodh Chandra recently submitted a taxpayers demand requesting that city conduct an outside, independent investigation into the allegations that the property selected for the Woodmont/Defer project was improperly rezoned because of the issuance of one or more conditional-use permits.

 

http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/196786

 

From the 12/27/06 Gateway News:

 

 

Complaint seeks to halt Wal-Mart

Defendant calls legal filing 'baseless'

December 27, 2006

by Bob Gaetjens

Editor

 

Streetsboro Three citizens have filed a legal complaint seeking to halt construction of a 203,000-square-foot Wal-Mart SuperCenter.

 

Assigned to Judge Laurie Pittman's courtroom at the Portage County Court of Common Pleas, the complaint alleges proper procedure wasn't followed in creating zoning permitting a business integrated plan for Streetsboro Commons, a 125-acre retail and commercial development of which Wal-Mart is the anchor store.

 

http://www.thegatewaynews.com/news/article/1261571

 

Streetsboro has to be one of the worst places on earth.

From the 3/21/07 Gateway News:

 

 

New businesses slated for Woodmont

by Bob Gaetjens

Editor

 

Streetsboro -- A host of new businesses could join Streetsboro Commons, city officials say.

 

City Planning Director Linda Kovacs said Fashion Bug, Maurice's, Shoe Show, Sally Beauty Supply and PetSmart are possible tenants in the Commons, a 125-acre retail and commercial development off Route 14 by the Ohio Turnpike, being developed by Woodmont Co.

 

A Chipotle Mexican restaurant and Starbuck's coffee house also are slated for the development, according to Kovacs. The commission March 13 approved several signs for the Starbuck's.

 

http://www.thegatewaynews.com/news/article/1744492

 

This should be combined with the Atlanta thread.  :-P