The Depot Lease Part 2; Utter Hypocrisy in Boohooville
On Tuesday the Bushala Depot lease agreement was not voted upon. It item was continued until July 15th.
But that didn’t keep a gaggle of Zahra followers from trying to continue the narrative of subsidies and below market rate rent.
Our new friend, tender young thing Elijah Manaserro, local scholar, was there to do just that. And a few other callers in.
My favorite speaker was the itinerant pest Curtis Gamble, whose near homelessness makes him qualified to opine on real estate deals.
When public comments were done, Zahra showed his role as coordinator of the opposition. He wanted comparative market rates, he said; there won’t be any, but okay, fair enough. But then he displayed his fundamental ignorance by including agreements with The Summit Restaurant and the Boys and Girls Club – completely different properties.
The fact is that the Santa Fe Depot doesn’t have any “comps” in Orange County. The historic building is is unique and made up of several disparate areas, each of pretty small space; in other words, hard to rent out. And the Loading Dock, proposed for inclusion in a revised overall lease, is only connected to an area already leased by the Bushalas. Adaptive reuse will require a huge outlay of money to effect structural reinforcement, enclosure and interior finishes. And because there is no place for kitchen or restrooms, it is functionally useless for anybody except the Bushalas who have ten year lease extension options.
Here’s the hypocrisy part. Remember the ill-fate “boutique hotel/monster apartment,” an unsolicited proposal with no RFP, no RFQ, no RF-anything? Do you remember any of Fullerton BooHoo raising Hell about that? Me neither. I do remember that Ahmad Zahra and Shana Charles voted to give con-men Johnny Lu and Larry Liu a $14,000,000 price subsidy on a parcel they upzoned themselves. Talk about short-term memory loss.
Hopefully when this item returns, staff will explain (based on their extensive expertise) the expertise Fullerton Boohoo is always praising – that the deal they negotiated is not a subsidy and that rather than losing money, the deal will bring in tax revenue to the City and to the County; and that letting the Loading Dock fall down doesn’t help anybody – even those taxpayers Zahra and Charles pretend to care so much about.
Ironic. The 2 acre Lu/Liu massive gift of public funds is right next to the Loading Dock.
Fortunately, the deal is in litigation, mostly because the idiots Charles and Zahra voted to deed over the property BEFORE the deal was even done.
Haha. You beat me to it by a minute! But don’t ever forget how the supposed “fiscal conservative” Bruce Whitaker voted for that mess, too. The evil that men do…
Lives on…
Whitaker accomplished nothing in 14 years on the council. Not even courageous votes now and then. All he had was empty ideology and even that was hardly ever exercised. Good riddance.
The fake news Observer boohoos and Zahara Zombies will come out on the 15th to hate watch Jung’s council meeting.
If the lease is fair market, let’s hear other bids on it! What’s with all the secrecy? Makes no sense
It’s hilarious to hear someone say that property next to one of the busiest train stations in California is not desired. Get Bushala’s **** out of your mouth you bozo
I love facts.
For example: no one has asked to lease or use the loading dock in the last 65 years.
That’s a fact.
It’s not desirable, no matter how much color you inject into your ignorant comment.
Busy? Those commuters are passing through as fast as they can. It’s not a prime commercial location. Get Zahra’s shit out of your mouth.
It could be a dance platform for Curley and Laurey and Aunt Eller and all the other folks from Claremore.
Quick, the haystack is on fire! Throw on more hay!!
This blog does and always has suckled at the Bushalas’ teets. However, that doesn’t mean that the lease extensions and proposed amendments are unfair or are a gift of public funds via less than market value rent. All these comments, on both sides, are short on details and specifics. If you want to comment intelligently and add value to the discussion, then read the original lease and the proposed amendment, and cite specific passages and details regarding the amendment which show it to be fair or unfair. I don’t think any of the articles or comments have done this with any specificity. I honestly don’t know whether it’s fair or not, and having just glanced at the proposed amendment, I think I can forego a refill on my sleeping meds.
Gift of public funds? Where have I heard this line before? Hey Elijah Manassero manchild! Did you get your head out of Saskia’s ass long enough to develop your own opinion? Or do you need it spoon fed to you like your dinner?
Perhaps you should re-read what I wrote.
I have read the lease and the proposed amendment. it’s a good deal for the city.
By the way it’s “teats.”
Nothing new. Everything associated with Bushala and Jung get a headline in the commie paper and their true believers. This month, it is Eli.
Speaking on that commie Observer, what happened to that Anjali chick? Might Elijah’s fridge have her body stored inside?