THE CONTROVERSIAL “YELLOW wall” issue on a downtown building being renovated has finally been resolved.
Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Mazzuchi ruled Wednesday that the owners of the building, the three White sisters, will be granted access to the wall so that they can re-side it to give the wall a more “historical” feel, as required by a grant they received.
The Whites have been unable to gain access to the wall from their own property because the property line extends only a foot or so beyond the wall. They needed to set up scaffolding and equipment in a parking lot owned by the Watermarq.
However, negotiations with the Watermarq over several months failed to resolve the problem.
So they went to court.
Judge Mazzuchi ruled that, in return for getting access in the Watermarq parking lot, the White sisters must rent 25 spaces in a nearby public lot for Watermarq tenants.
That’s it.
The spaces will be rented in October when the work on the wall will be done. It can’t be done any earlier because the materials haven’t been ordered yet.
The building, on Front Street, will house a few apartments and a much anticipated wine bar, the Zephyr Bar. The construction of the wine bar, run by the folks at Everyday Wines, is in the “home stretch,” according to owner Dan Rutz, but still has a few issues to resolve and a few licenses to obtain.
Shouldn’t take long, but there’s no firm date on when it will open.
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