by jhwygirl
The building, silly wabbits!
Bids are due by Friday for the City Hall building, which has been appraised at $1.68 million.
It’s been years since I’ve been in it – 2003? 2002? – but at that price, it seems like a steal. Backs up on a residential neighborhood – if my memory isn’t failing – with sidewalks and mature trees. Quite lovely. I figure you could get 4 sweet-sized luxury condos, and maybe even 2 or 4 small “affordable” units in the basement. That would only work, though, if they’ve got some windows.
Similar to Missoula’s Babs – which will be making its developers quite a pretty penny.
Hopefully they put something into the bid that keeps the building from being razed. It is a piece of Montana history, and it’d sure be a shame if that was its fate.
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August 18, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I think you might confuse the courthouse with city hall. City hall, a one story sixties bank type building, isn’t going to be converted to condos.
August 19, 2008 at 7:17 am
That’s what the article says, Goof. Perhaps Lee Newspapers knows something you don’t know.
August 19, 2008 at 7:44 am
I enjoyed a couple of Missoulian articles in the past week and one even prompted me to call Missoula city hall, with some very interesting results. Too bad they missed the importance and implications of their own article!!
Bozeman city hall is up for sale, and right now, yep, it’s a fizzbo. However, my point was that jhwygirl may have confused which building she thought was city hall.
Pretty funny comment, though, Rebecca.
August 19, 2008 at 8:11 am
I may have been. I did a visit to you housing authority (can’t remember its name) and then to another building…
I’m getting old. Can’t remember a darned thing.
Mighta been all that good beer up there in the Bozone, though…
August 19, 2008 at 12:50 pm
I’d guess you went to the Stiff building, where planning and engineering are. Which is a third building and not either the courthouse or city hall, although it houses multiple city offices. It does abut a residential area and is across from the back of the federal building. HRDC handles our housing authority stuff, Bozeman isn’t an housing authority city, and that building is awesome, but I doubt that’s it.
The old library/new city hall will be very nice for staff and visitors, and suit the needs of the city for thirty or forty years. It’s also going to be “Leed” (sic–leeds, lead, or follow or getout of the way, I dunno) certified and enable the city hall to remain downtown and contribute to downtown’s viability, all for an extremely reasonable price when compared to new.
So the County, City and School district remain committed to staying downtown. The state’s out in the ‘burbs, but the feds remain downtown as well. Keeping these offices downtown is critical to economic success of downtown, imo.
That good beer in the Bozone, call me anytime and I’d be glad to buy one. I’ve got a favorite parking spot, too…
August 19, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Yes. I would have been in planning & engineering, and the HRDC – the people there (at least at the time) were very nice. Research stuff.
And good deal at keeping it all downtown. You’re right – having services like that downtown contribute a whole hell of a lot to commerce and general sustainability of local businesses.