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HOLLY RIDGE — Holly Ridge Town Council is looking a gift house in the mouth.
The town decided not to accept the the donation of the Summerhouse Sales Center proposed by Southeast Waterfront Marketing, Inc.
Town council members unanimously rejected the offer at its regular meeting this week.
“The biggest reasons for not accepting the donation are the costs to the citizens of the town, not knowing what we were going to do with the building,” Town Manager Tony Fann said.
Southeast Waterfront Marketing offered to donate the building, a double modular unit with porches currently located at the corner of Sound Road and N.C. 17 but to be moved to property the town owns on Sound Road. Construction of the sales office, including the purchase of the trailer in 2007, cost more than $322,000, according to Southeast Waterfront Marketing’s proposal. The donation would have included the sales office, its custom porches and handicap ramp, landscape and related materials, landscape lighting, dishwasher, refrigerator and gravel if needed. The proposal stipulated that the town lease the building to Summerhouse for three years with two one-year options at a cost of $1 per year.
The town would be responsible for all the costs involved in the relocation of the center and had received a $27,300 bid from Carolina House Movers in Beulaville for the move. Additional town costs would include removal and replanting of the landscape, water and sewer taps, utility hook ups, maintenance and insurance.
The building must be moved from its current property by March 31.
Chris Scharf, the sales manager for Summerhouse, said it will now be up to Southeast Waterfront Marketing to find another use for the building.
The company plans to continue to have an office in Holly Ridge, either at another location in the town or on site at the Summerhouse at Everett Bay development.
Scharf said the decision has not been made whether to use the Summerhouse Sales Center at one of those sites.
Article from Jacksonville Daily News by Suzanne Ulbrich – January 25, 2010
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