Tuesday, April 24, 2007
 
That's The Difference A Couple Million Dollars Buys
Art foundation defends properties: Is this Fox Point mansion a multimillion-dollar house or a museum? Some neighbors want it on the tax rolls.
    When is a museum a museum and not just a tax dodge? That's the question raised by residents who want two Fox Point mansions worth at least $3 million restored to the tax rolls.

    The neighbors are calling on the Village Board to re-examine a nearly 20-year-old agreement with the Chipstone Foundation that declared its property overlooking Lake Michigan a museum, granting it tax-exempt status.

    Not many have set foot inside the Georgian-style mansion.
If that property belonged to you or me, gentler reader, the commmunity would have already stripped its blighted eyesore from us and turned it over to a responsible developer who probably has the proper financing for an elegant strip mall.

But with millions of dollars available for defense, the local government must observe some decorum.


- posted by Brian J. @ 1:43 PM
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