$16 million dollar project that should be a $400 million dollar project

This is what the brochure shows what a smart green house looks like.

The pictures below are what a smart green house looks like in the African-American neighborhood.This is the green part with the use efficiency appliances, lighting and recycleable material


This is the smart part being wired, security, sensors.

Okay, I got the numbers wrong. It is a $4 million dollar project that has grown to a $16 million dollar project, that may grow into a $70 million dollar project.

As a result of this aggressive, multi-phase initiative, the Renaissance Pointe neighborhood will benefit from more than $70 million of community investment resulting in a $1.1 million annual increase to the area’s tax base.

When in fact it's really a $400 million dollar project, but raced white folks just refuse to pay black folks their value.

A little background information on this home: This house was assessed at about 13,000 and reassessed at around $22,000 with little improvement. The house was sold for $45,000. The picture you see here are improvements that will drive the price to an assessed value of around $140,000. Sit down and get yourself a cup of coffee, because I got questions.

would you pay for $140,000 for this renaissance pointe dream house: go to C:\Documents and Settings\2006Help\My Documents\Renaissance_Pointe.pdf.

better yet would Kevin Leininger pay $140,000 for such a house for his family? better yet would Leininger encourage his daughter to purchase her first home here. Probably not. Do you see a white male in this picture? Don't think so? Image, Leininger thinks all black folks are stupid, and all raced white males are clever.

No raced white man is moving his family into that neighborhood. Image, no this is not progress, more like more racialist behavior by raced white folks, take a real good look at the picture. Image.

Leininger knows well the racial history of Fort Wayne, he is a newspaper reporter. Leininger knows that Fort Wayne history did not sell homes to African-Americans. Leininger knows that for many years homes were contracted empty promises made and broken from raced whites to African-American families in Fort Wayne. Leininger knows that when white flight occurred in Fort Wayne, African-American moved in renting the abandoned homes, a few African-Americans were able to purchase homes.

But this is how Fort Wayne pretends that it does not and never had discriminated against its African American citizens in housing, jobs or education:

Since the 1930s, the historic core of Fort Wayne has been dismembered. Initially, buildings were removed to accommodate the automobile into a built environment not originally constructed with that form of transport in mind. Downtown still retained enough critical mass and remained vibrant until the 1960s.

Then, after it lost too many functions, it lost its vitality and surface parking and vacant lots came to dominate the landscape.

Sounds good? But raced white folks can tell lies because black folks and got no business calling them a liar! Right? Right!

Here some more lies about the decline of the urban core in Fort Wayne:

The decline in downtown Fort Wayne, as with most of our central cities, was a natural outcome of our access to inexpensive energy, our affluence and prevailing values that favored suburban style development.

Natural outcome of our access ...? Our! affluence? favored suburban? NOt ! Can you say G.I. Bill and the housing industry, banking industry that favored raced whites as it discriminated against affluence African-Americans? Discriminated and discriminating. Racialist behavior and practices that went unquestioned because black folks believed that raced white folks laws would make raced white folks do the right things. Not!

So, now Leininger, post up this pretty picture of what a good thing the
city's leaders are doing for black folks. Not!

What happened to all the brand new spacious home that was going to be built with the millions of dollars? Did that money for homes in African-American neighborhoods go to the Harrison Square Project?

Better yet what happened to all those new businesses that was going to support the synergy project of the nonprofits? Did that money for businesses go to the Harrison Square Project?

Hey do you think that the city tried to convince Hardball Capital to built homes in the neighborhoods, and they laughed in the city's face?

Do raced white folks believe that African-Americans will buy whatever piece of new gold that raced white folks is trying to pawn off as being real values?

Or is this not for African-Americans living in the neighborhoods but for attracting new immigrants to displace the African-Americans who currently resides in the neighborhood?

If the new method for valuing homes is through the process of trending? Trending being that even if a home is not sold in your neighborhood because of the neighborhood, if a home similar to your home is sold in another area, your home will be taxed the same as the home that was sold. So what that means is that homes in African-Americans neighborhoods do not have to be actual remodeled before they will be taxed at the new trending value.

So a new home appearing in an old neighborhood, valued at $140,000, places all similar homes at the same value,even though the other homes did not have similar repairs, will be valued the same.

Can we say "negro removal? Can we say without compensation?

Welcome to Renaissance Pointe - Fort Wayne's most exciting new neighborhood. Located near the heart of downtown, Renaissance Pointe is the revival of an historic 67 acre community where contemporary homes will be featured in a classic urban setting.

Be a part of this dramatic revitalization and take advantage of unique incentives being offered now to early qualified buyers.

67 acres of black folks.

Did I mention that these African-American neighborhoods were real close to the downtown Harrison Square Project ? But, I did mention Negro removal?

We will condemn your house but the city will not give you a dime.

Synopsis: Eminent domain. Requires a condemnor, before proceeding to acquire property by use of eminent domain, to: (1) establish a proposed purchase price; (2) provide the owner with an appraisal or other evidence used to establish the proposed purchase price; and (3) conduct a good faith negotiation with the owner of the property.

Requires a condemnor, except the department of transportation (department), certain utilities, and certain other persons, to proceed to acquire the property by use of eminent domain not more than two years after the condemnor submits a written acquisition offer to the owner of the property.

Requires the department, certain utilities, and certain other persons to initiate eminent domain proceedings not more than six years after the department, utility, or other person submits a written acquisition offer to the property owner.

Requires two of the three appraisers appointed under the eminent domain law to be: (1) licensed under the law concerning real estate brokers and salespersons; and (2) residents of Indiana. Extends certain deadlines under the eminent domain law.

Provides that if a condemnor fails to: (1) take possession of property the condemnor acquired though the use of eminent domain; and (2) adapt the property for the purpose for which it was acquired; not later than six years after the payment of the award or judgment for damages occurs, the condemnor forfeits all rights in the property as if the procedure to take the property had not begun.

Establishes procedures for using eminent domain to transfer ownership or control of real property between private persons for uses that are not public uses, including: (1) limiting the use of eminent domain only to certain types of property; (2) requiring mediation; (3) requiring that the acquisition of the property will accomplish more than only increasing the property tax base of a government entity; (4) requiring the payment of a premium to acquire certain types of property; (5) requiring the condemnor to pay the attorney's fees of certain owners; and (6) requiring the payment of certain other damages, if applicable, including business losses.

Prohibits a state agency or political subdivision from requiring that a lawfully erected sign be removed or altered as a condition of issuing a permit, license, variance, or other order concerning land use development unless the sign owner is compensated or has waived compensation in writing.

Provides that the land owner may receive litigation expenses and reasonable attorney's fees not to exceed: (1) $25,000 in a public eminent domain proceeding; or (2) 25% of the cost of the acquisition in a private to private eminent domain proceeding; if the land owner receives greater compensation at trial than was offered in the most recent settlement offer.

Provides that the landowner is entitled to reasonable attorney's fees if a proposed private to private eminent domain proceeding does not meet certain eligibility requirements. Specifies that certain persons authorized to exercise eminent domain may only do so to accomplish the essential delivery of services. Prohibits libraries from exercising eminent domain unless a specified legislative body in the library district adopts a resolution specifically approving the use of eminent domain for a particular purpose. Prohibits a privately owned cemetery from exercising eminent domain. Establishes a study committee to study eminent domain issues. Makes other changes and conforming amendments.

Now compare these homes in African-American neighborhoods to the houses purchased and needed for the Harrison Square Park Project that were not in African-American neighborhoods. You know the ones where Greg Leatherman went door to door offer thousands of dollars to homeowners without city council approval.

The name Leatherman sounds familiar, you say? Here Leatherman, participated in another city controlled negro removal just 10 years ago.

African-American neighborhoods are destroyed and the city's commitment is to prevent giving the money directly to the homeowners. The city instead pawns off a trade off on those who can afford to stay in the neighborhood with a new home, called renaissance pointe, or creative financing.

The deal. Let's us condemn your home (that no longer has a mortgage), and convince you black folks we now, city and bankers want to sell a new home for $100,000. The city will give you a grant of $45,000, leaving you a balance of $55,000 that the bank will provide a mortgage on the assessed value of $100,000.

Sounds good if the home was a quality type worth $100,000, and the homeowner would benefit. Sounds good if it was not a deal aimed at a single senior citizen who is lifted from her home, placed in an apartment to later return and beginning making house payment from her fixed income.

Sounds good, don't mean it is good or even to be called progress. I say progress when African-Americans receive value from their investment? And only then will I conceded that raced white folks in the city of fort wayne is about the right thing when it comes to African-Americans.

It is a good deal to change the lives of African-Americans when the $45,000 grant to move is not tied to a certain location. Otherwise, we know that the good deal is redlining. Redlining more affluence African-American onto property that is undervalued but a good location to contain and maintain a critical mass of affluence African-Americans in one location.

Sounds good.

Question? Were not African-American freed from the plantation style of living in the 1800?

All that is needed is just one.

Just one.

And the rest?

Be a part of this dramatic revitalization and take advantage of unique incentives being offered now to early qualified buyers.

A year ago I was asking questions about this renaissance point project, June 2006 if not earlier, because if it sounds to good to be true...it's probably a lie. But read this, the folks who they put on the committees who don't have a clue say about not being familiar with the area. No surprise there, but the truth finally comes to light.