Comments on: Please Tell Me They're Not Coming Down

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:43:43 +0000

One of the trees, I believe the trunk closest to the Red Brick building, looks to be completely rotted out. It wouldn’t be safe to keep the trees up if that’s the case for all of them. If that’s the case, it points to the failure of proper maintenance, not to the random deletion of mature trees. Urban forestry management is something that should be explored further in the City, in my opinion.

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:38:05 +0000

Do we know the reasons these trees appear to be in the process of being cut down? It seems an odd choice to be cutting down trees for no reason. Even soulless property owners want to make money and spending money to cut down trees for no purpose seems like an odd choice. Do we know if this is due to the prospect of a building being built there? Do they think this will increase the value of the property? Are the trees diseased? Perhaps they don’t like trees because they couldn’t climb them as small children? I guess I would just like more information, before condemnation…despite the owners’ past history. Although they seem to be owners worthy of skepticism based on everything written here.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:40:01 +0000

What a bunch of losers. Like the poster above, who doesn’t realize trees like this are a valuable asset?

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 05:05:48 +0000

Sorry Steve but those trees are history – they’ve been trimmed too much to ever survive, which may have been the intent. The one on the far right looks like it was trimmed about halfway up at some point. The top half is regrowth. Why don’t you ask them whats going on?

By: Shane

Shane — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:18:10 +0000

I thought everyone realized that mature old trees are a valuable asset?

By: Michael H

Michael H — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:51:01 +0000

Steve, This is really sad…I hope on balance, in the grand scheme of things, that enough downtown developers and investors are more civic and community minded so that the Smith brothers arent’ the ones who get to write the story on how our downtown community will look in the future.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:53:52 +0000

heh.

By: slackmeyer

slackmeyer — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:42:37 +0000

Terry, I was counting on one of you to provide the rest of the picture.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:23:29 +0000

Steve, you’re being far too kind to the Smith brothers. I can’t think of one example of an improvement to any of the vast properties they own. They’re in it soley for investment and will expend nothing towards improving a property. The don’t care anything about the community at-large, history of a property or futhering the common good. Pure and simple, and in words well known: They’are slum lords.