OPINION: Best of the web, August 10

August 10 2017 - 8:00am

Two tenders submitted for Eden’s Hotel Australasia 

Only two tenders received. I wonder if one of these will get the building and land virtually free on a promise of restoration. Will we ever know what these tenders are worth? I think residents should be told how much council sells an asset for. What concerns me is that it is fine to say that restoration must commence within nine months and be completed within two years, and that the developer is responsible for maintaining the pedestrian walkway from Imlay Street through to the car park, but if the developer fails to do so the council get to keep a bank guarantee of $10,000 then the developer can tell council to get lost. After that there could be a lot of legal expense or else council walking away with nothing and the developer doing what they like with the building and the lane way.

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