Tag Archives: OPRA

Stewart Beal on his court case against Ypsilanti City Council

By Mark | April 28, 2011

A few days ago, in a post about the the ongoing cluster-fuck that is Ypsilanti’s Thompson Block, I mentioned that Stewart Beal, who owns the increasingly-precarious burned-out shell of a building, was suing the City over the revocation of an Obsolete Property Reduction Act (OPRA) abatement that had been awarded on another one of his […]

Posted in Politics, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 208 West Michigan Avenue, Go Downtown, Michigan Tax Commission, Obsolete Property Reduction Act, real estate, Stewart Beal, taxes, the Kresge building, Thompson Block, Ypsilanti City Council | 62 Comments

Yet another post entitled, “What’s up with the Thompson Block?”

By Mark | April 26, 2011

Since people are discussing this in the comments section following an old thread, I thought that I’d move the subject up here, to the front page… Today is April 26th, which means, according to the interpretations of some, that Stewart Beal has missed the deadline that he’d negotiated with City Council, by which time he […]