The Coatesville City Council unanimously approved Carl Chetty’s plans for the north side of the bridge on former steel company property in Coatesville. There was no opposition to Chetty’s plan by City Solicitor Andrew Lehr like there was in March of 2006.
The Coatesville City Council also unanimously approved Mosaic Development Partners LLC’s plans for the former steel company property south of the bridge.
Carl Chetty is a builder with a very long track record of successful developments.
Although Smallwood-Lewis and Reaves have experience working for a developer; Mosaic Development Partners LLC has no experience building anything. The two people that make up the company once worked for “The Goldenberg Group”.
Did they just decide to start out big and stumbled upon Coatesville? Or did they know someone in Coatesville? Did they know people in Coatesville through Smallwood’s former co-council on the case she was disbarred for; Attorney Michael Whitlow?
Whitlow had a law office within a 3 minute walk to Coatesville City Hall. Whitlow passed away in October of 2007 but was very much alive when he was Smallwood’s co-council. Whitlow was also one of the regulars in State Rep. Hennessey’s office "City Hall East" and a very big supporter of the Walker Administration.
“The Mosaic Flats Redevelopment Concept Plan” was created on May 30, 2008
Mosaic Development Partners LLC was created on July 7, 2008.
Mosaic Development Partners presented their “Flats Redevelopment Concept Plan” to the Coatesville RDA on July 21, 2008.
A copy of the “Mosaic Flats Redevelopment Concept Plan” dated "30 May 2008" is here:
http://www.box.net/shared/l4brrbca1c
The only information about Mosaic Development Partners anyone can find is a 4 page website, http://hstrial-greaves1.homestead.com/contact.html some things they presented here in Coatesville and their company:
“Mosaic Development Partners, LLC, Democratic Republic of the Congo (offshore registry) Created on July 7, 2008 at;
4950 Parkside Ave
STE 506
Philadelphia PA 19131
All of the “experience” they talk about is with their former employer. They have no letters of recommendation from anyone employed by their former employer “The Goldenberg Group”. Did they leave on good terms?
And they do have possible connections to some of the city council members and city administration through Whitlow. Even if Mosaic does nothing with the property it may be worth a lot in a few years.
I think the best hope we as Coatesville residents have is that Chetty Builders will make a go of it and Mosaic will be dragged along. At the very least the site may be left a little easier for some company to develop.
There are three letters of recommendation for Leslie Smallwood-Lewis and
Greg Reaves here:
http://www.box.net/shared/zi4pxou2ps
They gave a printout of this article to those at the Coatesville City Council meeting:
Friday, December 9, 2005
State backs retail center plan
Boost for long awaited West Philly project
Philadelphia Business Journal - by Peter Van Allen Staff Writer
http://philadelphia.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2005/12/12/story1.html
There was also a copy of an Inquirer Article about “The Fresh Grocer” in West Philadelphia with no mention of Leslie Smallwood Lewis or Greg Reaves.
There is a Philadelphia Inquirer article not concerning Mosaic Development Partners but another company with little experience that started out big:
Developer leaving a legacy of failures
By Alan J. Heavens
Inquirer Real Estate Writer
Find this article at:
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20090531_Developer_leaving_a_legacy_of_failures.html
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
The Coatesville City Council may make a tremendous mistake tonight.
In my opinion voting for the Mosaic Development may result in a monumental scandal.
The Agenda for tonight's Coatesville City Council Meeting is here:
http://www.box.net/shared/l25nijr8zg
See previous posts concerning Mosaic Development Partners and Leslie Smallwood.
The Agenda for tonight's Coatesville City Council Meeting is here:
http://www.box.net/shared/l25nijr8zg
See previous posts concerning Mosaic Development Partners and Leslie Smallwood.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Just looking through old articles and found this one.
This is a quote from Robin Scott:
"Added council Vice President Robin Scott: 'There is going to be change . . . and some people are scared of change."
It was who was in charge of the changing that we were concerned about.
Notice that the Saha family was beginning to doubt the motivations of the people that they had helped get elected.
I think that everyone that once thought they were helping the Saha family by staying home on that Election Day in 2005, now know they were just being used by people with dark motivations.
The article below is no longer available on line. It is from my personal records:
"Added council Vice President Robin Scott: 'There is going to be change . . . and some people are scared of change."
It was who was in charge of the changing that we were concerned about.
Notice that the Saha family was beginning to doubt the motivations of the people that they had helped get elected.
I think that everyone that once thought they were helping the Saha family by staying home on that Election Day in 2005, now know they were just being used by people with dark motivations.
The article below is no longer available on line. It is from my personal records:
Chester County Reporter
Story filed 10 January 05
________________________________________
Coatesville residents turnout to support Krack, Bellizzie
By Allen Davis
Staff Writer
9 a.m., 10 Jan 06
Coatesville residents crowded into City Hall last night wanting to know if there was truth to reports that City Manager Jean Krack and Police Chief Dominic Bellizzie are to be replaced in the near future.
"I don't respond to rumors," council President Kareem Johnson said. Johnson would comment only that last night was the first time he had heard council was considering creating a new superintendent of safety position that would oversee the police.
Lt. Matt Gordon specifically asked whether rumors were true that Richard Legree, a constable and former Valley police officer, was to be named superintendent of safety.
"This is the first time I heard that," Johnson responded.
Council members Marty Eggleston and Ed Simpson both said last night they had no problem showing public support for both Krack and Bellizzie.
Fifteen off-duty police officers, all in uniform, turned out last night to show their support for Bellizzie whom has been credited with ridding the streets of open-air drug markets and professionalizing the 32-man department.
Bellizzie was also supported by the Coatesville NAACP. "Chief Bellizzie is my buddy. I don't want anybody messing with him," said Louise Hopkins, president of the Coatesville NAACP. Bellizzie, who is white, is the first city police chief to meet regularly with the NAACP over such issues as profiling.
"Without Jean Krack and his people (staff), you're going to set the city back five years," said Elwood Dixon, a Caln resident but who owns property in Coatesville.
Ricky Saha urged the new council members to work with Krack and his staff. "I called Krack and said I was going to do anything I could to keep him and others on," said Saha.
Ricky Saha is the son of Dick Saha who waged a six-year legal and political battle to force the city to halt the city from using its eminent domain powers to take his Valley Township farm for a golf course.
Johnson said all new council members are 100 percent for the city's revitalization and he looked forward to working with the three council members remaining from last year's council. ". . . but we're going to move forward," he said.
Added council Vice President Robin Scott: "There is going to be change . . . and some people are scared of change."
Johnson, Scott, Patsy Ray and Kurt Schenk were all elected in November. The four defeated incumbents David Griffith, Bill Chertok, Carmen Green and David DeSimone.
Last night Schenk implored residents to give the new council members a chance.
"Before you listen to rumors, give us a call . . . Please give us a chance," he said.
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You can write to Allen Davis at allen@chestercountyreporter.com
What is it about con-men?
Why did they choose the life of a bottom feeder? They are smart enough to make an honest living. Is cheating exciting to them? Is the thrill of stealing what they live for?
One thing is very clear about con-men. If they were hunters they would be content to hunt animals in a zoo. They go for the easiest kill.
I know this because so many of them come to Coatesville to try out their cons.
Long time residents here care about themselves and sometimes include their friends and fellow “Coatesvillians”. I have found that even the churches here are sometimes divided by those who are primarily religious and those who primarily want to bilk their fellow churchgoers. The rest of the world, its laws and values, do not come into their value system.
Just like a cooking pot for crabs doesn’t need a lid. Coatesville residents are an easy “make” for a con. If someone is running a con in Coatesville they are more likely to find people who want a cut than people who will try to stop it. The Coatesville residents will pull each other back down just like crabs in a cooking pot.
As long as the citizens of Coatesville's egos are stroked people here don't care if most Coatesville residents are being bled dry by con-men. That is if they also perceive it is the government or the people in the next block and not them who are being bled dry.
Coatesville is con-man heaven; it's like hunting in a zoo.
One thing is very clear about con-men. If they were hunters they would be content to hunt animals in a zoo. They go for the easiest kill.
I know this because so many of them come to Coatesville to try out their cons.
Long time residents here care about themselves and sometimes include their friends and fellow “Coatesvillians”. I have found that even the churches here are sometimes divided by those who are primarily religious and those who primarily want to bilk their fellow churchgoers. The rest of the world, its laws and values, do not come into their value system.
Just like a cooking pot for crabs doesn’t need a lid. Coatesville residents are an easy “make” for a con. If someone is running a con in Coatesville they are more likely to find people who want a cut than people who will try to stop it. The Coatesville residents will pull each other back down just like crabs in a cooking pot.
As long as the citizens of Coatesville's egos are stroked people here don't care if most Coatesville residents are being bled dry by con-men. That is if they also perceive it is the government or the people in the next block and not them who are being bled dry.
Coatesville is con-man heaven; it's like hunting in a zoo.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Harder to buy smack and crack
It’s harder to buy smack and crack in Coatesville right now. You can thank the boys that work for Eric H. Holder Jr.
Daily Local News
High-tech mapping program aids police sweep
Published: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/06/03/news/srv0000005494009.txt
Daily Local News
High-tech mapping program aids police sweep
Published: Wednesday, June 3, 2009
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/06/03/news/srv0000005494009.txt
Monday, June 1, 2009
Crime is Down
According to Preliminary Stats
For the second straight year, violent crime and property crime have decreased across the nation.
SEE "CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES, Preliminary Annual Crime Report January to December 2008"
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/08aprelim/
For the second straight year, violent crime and property crime have decreased across the nation.
SEE "CRIME IN THE UNITED STATES, Preliminary Annual Crime Report January to December 2008"
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/08aprelim/
I could never understand the popularity of President Reagan.
But then I did not watch the evening news on TV. I was too busy working 12 hours a day 60 or more hours a week for most of my working life to have time for TV. I got all my news from the papers and read what Reagan said. It’s all vague pap when you read it; I guess it was in the delivery.
The Extremist Conservative Republicans that President Eisenhower thought would never have much clout in the Republican Party found their savior in President Reagan. The Extremist Conservatives quest to eliminate all traces of President Roosevelt’s New Deal found a leader. They were nearly completely successful.
But thank God they didn’t get their holy grail of eliminating Social Security by transferring the funds into the Stock Market. Our Social Security benefits would have been stolen by executives at Bear Sterns, AIG and (I kid you not) Nicky Scarfo's FirstPlus Finiancial Group Inc.
Read,
Reagan Did It
By PAUL KRUGMAN
New York Times May 31, 2009:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1
The Extremist Conservative Republicans that President Eisenhower thought would never have much clout in the Republican Party found their savior in President Reagan. The Extremist Conservatives quest to eliminate all traces of President Roosevelt’s New Deal found a leader. They were nearly completely successful.
But thank God they didn’t get their holy grail of eliminating Social Security by transferring the funds into the Stock Market. Our Social Security benefits would have been stolen by executives at Bear Sterns, AIG and (I kid you not) Nicky Scarfo's FirstPlus Finiancial Group Inc.
Read,
Reagan Did It
By PAUL KRUGMAN
New York Times May 31, 2009:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/opinion/01krugman.html?_r=1
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