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Wawa Might Anchor Long-Sought Redevelopment Plan at Bulldog Drive, But Uncertainties Abound

November 30, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

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The Palm Coast City Council is set to sell to a developer corner lots at Bulldog and SR100 for almost $600,000 less than it paid for them, as an incentive and linchpin for the redevelopment of the Bulldog Drive entrance.

Mounting Cost Overruns Latest Challenges To Bedevil Bulldog Drive Expansion

July 10, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 15 Comments

'Getting there has been a headache,' Palm Coast City Manager Jim Landon said of the Bulldog Drive expansion. (© FlaglerLive)

The Palm Coast City Council will approve doubling “contingencies” to $427,000 for the now-$5 million Bulldog Drive project, after approving change orders on the engineering contract that more than doubled the cost to $845,000.

Bulldog Drive War Over: Palm Coast Settles With Ajram, Paying Him $215,000 More Than It Offered in 2011

July 2, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 24 Comments

'It hasn't sunk in yet,' Colleen Ajram said Wednesday as she and her husband Gus reflected on the settlement with Palm Coast outside of GEA Auto on Bulldog Drive. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast agreed to pay GEA Auto owner Gus Ajram $1.15 million for his two properties on Bulldog Drive, $25,000 more than even he was asking three years ago, ending years of acrimony and clearing the way for the city to eventually (and again) widen Bulldog Drive unimpeded.

Palm Coast Scrambles To Right Its Way After Discovery That Bulldog Drive Is a County Road

March 5, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 46 Comments

Palm Coast has staked a claim on Bulldog Drive even though since the right-of-way has been county property, never ceded to the city. Gus Ajram's GEA Auto business is in the near distance, and has been at the center of a long battle with the city. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast has never owned Bulldog Drive, a county road since 1956, though the city is widening the street, has acquired land alongside it and has engaged in an epic battle with business owner Gus Ajram as if the right of way were Palm Coast’s. City and county are speeding toward formalizing the city’s ownership.

Gus Ajram, Embattled Bulldog Drive Business Owner, Collapses in Outburst Before Council

November 20, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

Ajram and City Manager Jim Landon have battled over Ajram’s property on Bulldog Drive for several years, in what became a personal showdown. Rather than acquire the property, the city is now diverting Bulldog Drive, at a cost significantly greater than the difference it was unwilling to pay Ajram in negotiations.

Town Simmer: City Retreats From Four-Laning Bulldog Drive or Condemning Ajram Property

September 27, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 32 Comments

Lack of money and traffic and the threat of a lawsuit forced Palm Coast to keep Bulldog Drive a two-lane road for now, beautifying it, but also dropping its long-running condemnation threat against property owner Gus Ajram.

Palm Coast Will Condemn Private Properties, Muscling Through Bulldog Drive Beautification

September 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 42 Comments

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Invoking eminent domain is Palm Coast’s latest plan of attack against an immigrant business owner who refuses to sell his parcels at the city’s price.

Town Center CRA: How Palm Coast Invented “Blightness” to Capture and Hoard Tax Revenue

September 21, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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In 2004, Palm Coast declared 3,000 acres of scrub and pine forest “blighted” and in need of “redevelopment.” The Town Center “Community Redevelopment Agency” was born.

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