David Ulrich for Mayor

Date: Sat Jun 11 10:34 AM, 2005

David Ulrich for Mayor

Nitrogen_Widget · Senior Member

I seriously doubt Mayor of Lockport is a title Ulrich seeks to consider his life a success.

Though, he could sell to himself the rest of the city owned abandoned buildings for a buck a pop.

jspeer · Guru

Nitrogen_Widget wrote:

I seriously doubt Mayor of Lockport is a title Ulrich seeks to consider his life a success.
Though, he could sell to himself the rest of the city owned abandoned buildings for a buck a pop.

A buck a pop....SOLD! I think outside the box. Let's get these dead properties back on the tax rolls. When Delphi is gone we will be happy that we thought ahead to look to tourism as our bread and butter industry.

Scott Leffler · Guru

I agree - I'd sell David almost any DOA property in teh city for $1 if he commits to turning it around.

Lets start with the property across State Street from Garlocks. Right there by the canal. It's a gold mine in the making. And I think the city owns it.

Mr. Ulrich? Care to take us up on that?

jspeer · Guru

Scott, I offered to fix that property and turn it into a nice little 2 tier park area with a stairway into the city. And Sulley was all for it but then he smashed the plan when he thought he had a buyer. Judge Watson was going to give me people who needed to do community service to help clear the trees, I had my uncle that offered to loan me his pay loader and his Backhoe, I had a local blacktopper who offered free blacktop. I had concrete donated, I had shrubs donated. I had a landscaper who offered to help, and I even drew up a picture of what it would look like. If I find it I'll post it. It just looks terrible when you enter the city via the canal. You know what they say about first impressions? I agree, it would be nice if Mr. Ulrich put something nice there.

Nitrogen_Widget · Senior Member

Why does it cost so much to lay some pipe?

Nitrogen_Widget · Senior Member

Is there anyone that believes Ulrich didn't know how much it would cost to put in the pipe when he made it a stipulation for buying the building?
How could he not know?
That's his business.

I think he just counted on the ineptitude of the CC & just took advantage of the city of Lockport to get a piece of property real cheap.

kspeer · Senior Member

Nitrogen_Widget wrote:

Is there anyone that believes Ulrich didn't know how much it would cost to put in the pipe when he made it a stipulation for buying the building?
How could he not know?
That's his business.

I think he just counted on the ineptitude of the CC & just took advantage of the city of Lockport to get a piece of property real cheap.

Shouldn't the CC know these things too before they offer? I certainly wouldn't blindly offer to do something before knowing the cost.

Scott Leffler · Guru

kspeer wrote:

Shouldn't the CC know these things too before they offer? I certainly wouldn't blindly offer to do something before knowing the cost.

Kels, couldn't agree more. Check this from the Union-Sun's web site: NW (6/16/2005)
The CC didn't know how much it cost & didn't bother to find out but they gave it the OK anyways? Well, as the saying goes, you just can't fix stupid.

I love that. "You just can't fix stupid." I've never heard that before.

-- Edited by Scott Leffler at 13:56, 2005-06-17

Nitrogen_Widget · Senior Member

That was pretty good.

Maybe i'm looking at it wrong. I guess I can see how Ulrich wouldn't even fathom having to tell the CC what it might cost them because for them to not find out would be unheard of in his line of work.

You wouldn't take your car to a mechanic & tell them to just fix it.

What type of tax revenue would a property like this generate?

kspeer · Senior Member

Hey NW or Nitrogen Widget, yeah I see that it was you who Scott quoted. You have some other good posts over on that site too!

Scott Leffler · Guru

kspeer wrote:

Hey NW or Nitrogen Widget, yeah I see that it was you who Scott quoted. You have some other good posts over on that site too!

Ya know, Kels, I was going to ask Nitro if that was him. But then I figured it wasn't cause it was essentially opposing the view he had taken here. Of course, that would be pretty smart of him. That way he wins on one board or the other.

Date: Fri Jul 22 1:19 PM, 2005

Is Mr. Ulrich still running? What's the campaign deal? Is he advertising?

Date: Fri Jul 22 5:14 PM, 2005

He's the guy with all the money right? Where'd he get it or make it? Did he inherit his dough? Make it on his own? What's he worth?

Date: Fri Jul 22 8:51 PM, 2005

Someone said that he made his money the old fashioned way. He worked for it.