{"id":3865,"date":"2023-06-28T10:24:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T14:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=3865"},"modified":"2023-06-28T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T14:24:28","slug":"old-building-back-annexing-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/28\/old-building-back-annexing-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Old building back; annexing complete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A downtown building that&#8217;s become a long-festering problem was back before Decatur&#8217;s board of works and safety at its latest meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, city council took action on two subdivisions: formally annexing Lake Shores and moving one step from finalizing a reduction of the speed limit in Cross Creek from 30 mph to 25 mph; the final vote will come at the July 5 meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Faurote building at 138 N. Second St. has been shored up and made safe by city dollars, but it&#8217;s time to plot a course for its future, Building\/Zoning Superintendent Curt Witte told the board at its recent meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe need to start thinking about what to do with that building,\u201d Witte said. \u201cI&#8217;m afraid it&#8217;s going to start deteriorating again, then we&#8217;ll lose all that money we&#8217;ve put into it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a discussion which included putting the structure up for sale, it was decided to let city council make a final decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The building, formerly owned by Paul Faurote of Decatur, had been deteriorating for years and had become a major safety concern for the city. Faurote deeded the building, at no charge, to the city a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Council later spent over $150,000 to have Limberlost Construction of Geneva secure the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com A downtown building that&#8217;s become a long-festering problem was back before Decatur&#8217;s board of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,21],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/7616D7A7EEA44C638EFA54890D4402FC.jpg?fit=379%2C478&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}