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Beautiful downtown Madison is a jewel. There are many lovely storefronts and businesses that are a tribute to native, long time and new residents of the wonderful community. Sadly there are several buildings, all owned by the same family, that have varying degrees of neglect and deterioration and some of those issues affect the potential health and safety of others.
The old hardware store buildings on the east end of Main Street, adjacent to the owner's restaurant, Bandito Burrito, and the old Humphrey Hughes Drug Store building a few store fronts away, also on Main Street, and the pitiful old metal buildings behind Main Street and on Martin Street have far too long been an eyesore and an insult to the Madison community.
Even with all the Phase I addition of new store front buildings, new parking, new landscaping, new lighting, etc and the long awaited Phase II having already begun, the old buildings remain an eyesore, a safety hazard, and frankly inexplicable.
When asked about it months ago, one of the owner's stated: "IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!"
I take exception...the obvious decline of a precious and irreplaceable downtown main street IS the business of all who live and work in Madison.
I would hope that public pressure can be brought to FORCE the City of Madison Mayor, City Council, City Planning, City Zoning, etc leaders will step up and make the Anderson family repair these buildings to improve safety, restore them to reasonable appearance and maintain them on an ongoing basis or force them to sell the properties or take them by legal action.
It simply must be addressed NOW!
If you agree, please contact the City of Madison and demand they do their job!
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YES...STILL A SORE SIGHT TO SEE AND DETERIORATING BEFORE OUR EYES...15 MONTHS LATER FROM ORIGINAL POSTING HERE.
AND THE OWNERS AND THE CITY FATHERS FIDDLE AFTER A COUPLE OF MILLION WAS SPENT ON UPGRADING MAIN STREET'S ROAD, SIDEWALKS, PARKING LOTS, LANDSCAPING, ETC AND ADDING ART THAT DOES LITTLE TO REMEDY THE DEMISE OF THIS LANDMARK.
WHY?
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Offers were made to help.
Nails and a few buckets of paint cost little.
Personal labor is free and the owners are able bodied.
Regardless of the interior or usability, it would take little to make the outside look better.
These two buildings have been in decline for years and years and years.
They has been zero progress with the two story portion of the hardware store.
There has been zero progress with the historic old drug store building.
There are rumors the owners are in danger of losing them, I hope not, but something needs to be done to save these buildings. No one wants to see them collapse before our eyes.
I would love to see progress and the saving of these historic buildings.
I think a world of people would be delighted to help with donations of time and material.
They do not seem to be interested. It's sad. It makes no sense.
No one understands why because it surely is not just the money because, again, a little paint, some nails and a few boards and some personal labor could make a world of difference.
I'm sure a lot of people would help...including me.
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PLEDGE: Will keep this issue open until the buildings are repaired and are no longer an eyesore.
So flag and close away. It will ALWAYS be reposted with photos and commentary that calls out the owners and the City of Madison.
Adjacent business owners, adjacent homeowners, most all of Madison's residents DO care.
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A drive by this week on Main Street revealed the historic old hardware store has deteriorated more. The glass is all broken out of the upper windows along the side adjacent to the railroad tracks. It is deteriorating day by day and the City of Madison and the owners are just waiting for it to get to the state that the city condemns it and demolishes it. I'm sure so they can build something new and shiny. It is really a sad statement for both parties. Photos soon.
Absolutely this issue is not closed or resolved. It's never going to be.
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You are really cute to use the F word on a site that forbids it and close posts that are still an open problem. I suggest you troll on another site and leave this one.
I WILL REOPEN THIS POST AS LONG AS THE BUILDINGS ARE DECAYING AND REMAIN A DANGER AND AN EYESORE FOR MADISON RESIDENTS, MAIN STREET PATRONS AND HARM THE OTHER BUSINESSES THERE.
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You are really cute you know. Not. Really sad, actually.
I have much longer staying power to keep this open than you do, you miserable troll.
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Until the buildings are rehabilitated.
So gentlemen, go troll somewhere else.
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OPEN : :0)
Hope you all enjoy all this trolling and stalking because I can outlast every one of you.
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The REAL "Lifelong Madison Native" did NOT post the following comments. I did NOT post any of the following FAKE comments. I do not, nor have I ever, had a problem with good operating businesses on Main Street - not Old Black Bear, not with any one of them. I have flagged and reported these fake posts. I ask that you do too.
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Old Black Bear Brewing Company is one of the many awful places in downtown Madison. It should be destroyed like the other buildings so that something better can be in such a great place. And you can shut up, TurkeyDick! I WILL NEVER GIVE UP. I WILL NEVER GIVE UP. I WILL NEVER GIVE UP. 06/21/2018 ·
FAKE: Lifelong Madison Native (Registered User)
But your business will not outlast me. If only your service were as fast as your SeeClickFix replies...06/23/2018 ·
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Sorry about the language - 06/23/2018
I suspect it is Will Freeman, Turkey Reuben or Voice of Reason doing this.
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You're really all quite 'funny'. Not.
Don't you think the lovely plywood windows fit in with the multi-million dollar city upgrades of Main Street and downtown Madison?
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ISSUE OPEN FOR ALL TO SEE THE TERRIBLE CONDITION OF THIS BUILDING.
Sure. Real 'historic'. A historic eyesore that needs repair, paint, attention, care - not demolition because the owners nor the city wish it to be so.
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Thankfully the trolls seem to have been contained.
Sadly the old hardware store, drug store and adjacent storefront that has long been said it will be repaired and renovated as a 'cigar bar' are all still in terribly sad shape.
So the issues of these decaying and untended buildings on the historic Main Street of Madison absolutely remains open after I first posted about them 1,500 days ago.
This issue will stay open on this site as long as the sad demise continues. And it does seem with the city doing nothing about it, nor the 'Historic Commission' that is supposed to protect the historic value of the district, perhaps the owners and the city leaders are together deciding that if the buildings decay enough there will be consensus to destroy them one day. I truly hope that does not happen.
I think that most in Madison want these three stores to be rehabilitated and utilized to more vitalize the downtown Madison area at best. At a minimum residents want the window boards replaced with glass, the rotten boards replaced and painted and the facades made to look normal rather than a derelict ghetto building so that they will not deter from the other rehabbed buildings that have operating businesses in them.
Let us hope that something will happen to save them and happen sooner rather than later.
Issues remain very much OPEN.
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You really are an UGLY ROTTEN person, inside and out.
The issue is OPEN and remains OPEN.
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ANYTIME SOMEONE USING A CLONED DUPLICATE OF MY NAME CLOSES THIS ISSUE, PLEASE KNOW THAT IT IS A STALKER WHO DOESN'T PLAY BY THE RULES AND USUALLY TALKS UGLY.
FOR SOME REASON THE ADMINS OF THIS SITE CAN'T SEEM TO HELP RID THE SITE OF HIM DESPITE MY CONSTANT REQUESTS.
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You're pretty desperate and pitiful. You must have a vested interest in this matter. And you even are deceitful enough to fake my user name. You're a real piece of work.
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Bahahahaha "Your Team" Right. RESOLVED? BAHAHAHAHAHA
Nope friends, don't believe it.
That old building is a fire hazard, an eyesore and far from "resolved".
Go see for yourself. Main Street, Madison Alabama.
We just have a new stalker's hidden name that is a recycle of the old stalkers.
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The STALKING TROLLS who keep closing this subject MUST be the OWNERS or FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE OWNERS.
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Does this look like the building has been "all fixed up"?
Nope.
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Photo above was taken in July/August 2018. Same of this photo of the old drugstore, owned by the same family.
Both buildings look as they always have, only worse and getting worse by the day.
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Pure Delusions. LOL
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So there.
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Not closed.
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Read some of these articles
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ibtimes.com/indoor-farming-future-takes-root-abandoned-buildings-warehouses-empty-lots-high-rises-1653412%3famp=1
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Not funny "Sarah". ISSUE REMAINS OPEN.
DON'T START PLAYING THE "CLOSE ISSUE" GAME LIKE THE PREVIOUS TROLLERS.
You will get banned too.
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Don't know why this site demands to know if an issue is "STILL OPEN" every 2 weeks but it does. So YES. This issue IS absolutely STILL OPEN. Buildings in same or worse shape than when this was posted 1,591 days ago. Yep.
STILL OPEN. STILL A PROBLEM. STILL AN EYESORE.
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