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20 MANCHEr-TKR HERALD. Tufsduv. Feb 5 I9B5 MANCHESTER WEATHER Mostly clear tonight; Town to survey site ECHS priest is back Knees in athletics AREA TO W N S sunny, cold Thursday of proposed housing with a new cookbook can be quite fragile ... page 2 Bolton officials pick Wiedie ... page 3 ... page 14 ... page 11 as architect for firehouse who were present then discussed bert.son elementary schools in Bv Sarah Passed the four architects in executive Manchester. Herald Reporter session before voting to award the Simsbury architect Schoenhardt showed the PBC slides of an BOLTON — Bolton architect job to Wiedie. The commission is only four members strong since award-winning public library his Alan Wiedie was selected by the the resignation last week of former firm designed for the town of Avon Public Building Commission Mon and another library in Essex. He iEanrhfBtprI Mr ralbWednesday,Wednesday, Fe Feb. 6, 1985 — Single copy: 25<I! Chairman Robert Allen. Member day to design a new central fire Manchester, Conn. — A City of Village Charm Ronald Heim was absent from also showed slides of a small station for the town. Monday's meeting. firehouse — simpler and less costly The selection is contingent on the than the libraries — that his firm negotiation of an architect’s fee AF TE R THE VOTE, Chairman built for $100,000 in Tolland in 1974. agreeable to both the commission Schoenhardt said his former and to Wiedie. Wiedie did not offer Michael Missari said Wiedie won the job because, "W e just felt that partner, Roger Galliher, was re a fee estimate when he was sponsible for the aesthetic design interviewed by PBC members he would do the best for the town.” Finguerra mall wins directors’ backing Missari and member Thomas of the Tolland firehouse, the only Monday. one his firm has ever designed. Town voters approved spending Harrison said the decision was based less on a comparison of Schoenhardt estimated his fee think we had good grounds, we up to $800,000 to design and would be between $55,000 and similar to the one under which J.C. Wind.sor Tuesday. given no indication that he would Windsor. The Manchester acreage Wiedie’s past work with the work By Kathy Garmus wouldn’t appeal,” Beck said. construct a new firehouse in a Penney was granted a seven-year DiRosa said today he did not vote take his development elsewhere if is already zoned to permit the of the other architects than it was $57,000 for the Bolton firehouse. Herald Reporter The group has 15 days after referendum vote last November. UPI photo fixed assessment on its property because little information on the Manchester officials did not coop mall. on the rapport PBC members have publication of the zone change During a three-hour special SOUTH WINDSOR ARCHI Manchester should offer devel could be an important factor in Finguerra project has been erate with him, DiRosa said. Despite approval of the zone established with him and on his approval to file an appeal. meeting Monday, the PBC inter Airline woes bringing the development to provided. ’ ’ I f he wants to come to Manches- change from rural residential to familiarity with Bolton. TECT Montana said he would oper John Finguerra a tax break or Moments after voting, members viewed four Connecticut architects “ All we have is a map.” he said. ler, let him pay the taxes,” he said. designed commercial, the Win- probably charge a fee between 6.5 impressed enough with the employees similar assistance for his proposed Manchester. of the South Windsor PZC began and looked at slides of buildings percent and eight percent of the Hank Lund, right, president of Frontier shopping mall and office-hotel The Board of Directors endorsed " I ’m not sure that with the sketchy Plans announced by Finguerra che.ster mall faces legal opposition Wiedie designed the Bentley offer to buy controlling interest in the gearing up for the expected legal each has designed. total cost of construction. Airlines, talks with Frontier’s General complex in Buckland, town Gen the concept of Finguerra’s devel information that I ’ve been pres last month call for an 800,000- from homeowners in the area. Those interviewed included the Memorial Library on Bolton Cen troubled airline that it adjourned until opment by a vote of 8 to 1. ented by both sides that I ’m square-foot mall, as well as a hotel ” I ’m pretty sure we’re going to challenges. Montana brought slides of the Counsel David Brictson after leaving the eral Manager Robert B. Weiss told The commission’s attorney, Lawrence Associates of Manches ter Road and a medical office Republican director Peter DiRosa prepared to vote on anything.” and office and industrial parks. appeal, ” said Manchester attor South Windsor fire headquarters, the employee coalition can gather the Board of Directors Tuesday Ralph G. Elliot of Hartford, ter, Richard E. Schoenhardt of building developed by Manchester Board of Directors meeting of Frontier DiRosa also said he is opposed to The development would be to the ney Bruce S. Beck, who is which he designed and which was further data for the board. night. Jr. abstained. advised commission members not Simsbury, Gregory Montana of physician Don Guinan on Haynes Holding Co. Monday. The board was Finguerra is competing with the Weiss’s suggestion that a tax break east of Buckland Street, just north repre.senting a group of South built in 1979. He also showed the Weiss said town officials should to talk about their decision pub South Windsor and Wiedie. Street. He also drew the plans for plans of Bronson & Hutensky of similar to the one offered J.C. of Interstate 84. Windsor homeowners opposed to PBC pictures of a corporate take an active role in assisting licly. Any comments on the matter The three members of the PBC remodeling Nathan Hale and Ro- Bloomfield and Melvin Simon & Penney to attract its massive Just before the Manchester the mall. headquarters he designed in New Finguerra and his three partners would only “ cloud the issue” and 5 Co. of Indianapolis to build a mall distribution facility to Manchester directors met Tue.sday night, the Beck said the most obvious Jersey, a high school auditorium in because the 265-acre site on which could be used in court, he said. 6 and office complex on 96 acres should be used to help attract South Windsor Planning and Zon grounds for appeal would be what Wallingford and Steak & Ale he has proposed the development Unlike plans for the Winchester straddling the Manchester-South Finguerra’s development. ing Commission voted 6-1 to he called inadequate traffic stu restaurants in Connecticut. is ’’one of the last opportunities for mall, most of Finguerra’s pio- Bolton Grand List rise Montana predicted that the PBC the town to be the beneficiary of Windsor town line to the west of ’ ’That’s fine for J.C. Penney — change the zoning of 57 acres of the dies and the commi.ssion’s failure BUSINESS proposed site for the competing to consider the impact of mall would not meet its July 1 deadline major tax income.” ■Buckland Street. A zone change for we were bidding with other Please turn to page 8 for .soliciting contstruction bids. Weiss said an arrangement that mall was approved in South towns,” he said. Finguerra has Winchester mall that lie in South traffic on the area. ” If we didn’t is highest in 5 years But Schoenhardt and Wiedie both said they could be ready for bids in BOLTON — The valuable of in fiscal 1985-86. July. state agency arranges sale Goetz taxable property in Bolton took its The 4.6 percent rise tops a 3.3 " I don’t think you can gel the Manchester gets biggest leap in five years during percent rise in 1983. The rise was town fathers to come to an 1984. only 1.9 percent in 1982, down from agreement quick enough,” Mon The Grand List — the value of all a 3.7 percent hike in 1981, accord tana said. He said a September to assist bank in Meriden pleads taxable property in town — rose ing to figures provided by the town. deadline would be more realistic. another blanketing He also predicted the town would from $75,891,429 in 1983 to The lowest in the last five years Savings and Loan of Bridgeport. lose a month waiting tor the Board HARTFORD (UPI) - A Mer rance Corporation. $79,376,639 as of Oct. 1, 1984. That was a 1.2 percent increase in 1980. After the merger, the new bank of Selectmen and town fire officials iden savings and loan that ran into “ Over the past year, it has making it difficult for snow plows translates to an increase of The biggest rise was in the value faced the problem of increasing An overnight snowfall which innocent become increasingly apparent to ' of motor vehicles registered in to approve the plans. problems with low-yielding mort to do their work until after the $3,485,210 or 4.6 percent in one me that while Permanent could costs to acquire deposits while continued this morning caused no Bolton, up 20 percent from First Selectman Sandra Pierog, gages and loans will be taken over morning rush hour. NEW YORK (UPI) — “Death year, according to figures released continue as a viable financial substantially all of its assets were major problems for town or state $6,833,710 to $8,203,690. according who did not attend the PBC by seven other banking firms Wish” gunman Bernhard Goetz Monday by the town assessor.