Sam the field of Construction estimates is a very complicated field which I approached cautiously but which you generally understand. I did not use the word "impossible" or "wood"
nor speak bluntly.
I add that frame construction can include walls made of fabricated metal studs and sheet rock /plaster board construction that replaced wood some years ago as an industrial standard actually wood is a better insulator and more expensive than metal wall stud frame construction but which serves a similar purpose.
Professionally I must in order to be credible qualify what I say each step of the way in what may seem wishy washy but which challenges the EB as that body's decisions were made without a complete and thorough study of construction costs, real property taxes.
additionally in my pass report posted for Dr. Brady on his request Crossville TN has a very repressive 9.75% local sales tax compared to a national average of only 5.6% sales tax which will drive construction material costs up.
what are the local laws? So if the materials are purchased locally there will be a 9.75% sales tax added to the cost !! If those materials were shipped from out of state suppliers to avoid local sales taxes at best there will be high shipping charges increased by the high costs of fuel, and alternatively the locals may try to force payment of local sales taxes and make what ever threats they frivolously have and can make as the USCF according to what I understand has no contract with Crossville TN to move there in a specific form. the building photographed that I posted was inexpensively for sale at cost much better than Crossville.
sloan@... wrote:
On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 11:54:42 GMT, "The Pushed Pawn"
<the_pushed_pawn@...> wrote:
> USCF Crossville Tennessee Building Construction a Bad > Investment by Andrew Zito October 29. 2005.
>
> http://pushedpawn.org
Andrew Zito has been calling me early every morning about this and I believe that this time he is really onto something.
Zito says that it will be virtually impossible or prohibitively expensive to construct a brick building in Crossville Tennessee. This is because the cost of transporting brick to the remote mountains of
Tennessee is high plus being a small town labor is not readily available so we will have to import the laborers too, which will be expensive.
Zito says that the only kind of building we could build in Crossville for $650,000 would have to be a frame building which would fall down in a few years.
The original plan was that the USCF would sell the brick building we owned in New Windsor New York for $513,000 and then build a new 4,000 square foot building in Crossville for only $90 per square foot for a total cost of only $360,000.
By the time Beatriz finished her term of office as president the projected cost had risen to $560,000.
All along, everybody assumed that for this $560,000 we would be getting a BRICK building in Crossville like the one we had in New Windsor.
Now, Zito says that this would be impossible. The building we are planning to build must be of wood and will last an average of only 19 years. We were in the New Windsor building for more than 30 years.
I am aware of the fact that the City Fathers of Crossville including former USCF Vice President Harry Sabine keep threatening to sue the USCF if we pull out of Crossville. That is why we are still there.
I would like to find out if Zito is right.
Is the projected building in Crossville brick or wood?
Please answer.
If the answer is wood and if we are still in Crossville only because of the threats of a lawsuit that Sabine keeps making, I am going to perfect my appeal against the USCF and have this settled in the courts.
Most people think that I lost my case against the USCF. Not true. I simply stopped litigating it because I felt that the Beatriz Marinello Gang would be defeated in the election and everything would be sweetness and light thereafter.
I was right that Beatriz lost at the ballot box but now it seems that she committed us to build a wooden building in Crossville Tennessee for $650,000, so it may be time to go back to court with this.
Sam Sloan
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