Telling Mansion Library sold without any preservation that I can see.

Here is the link to the purchase agreement signed by Richard Barone and the Cuyahoga County Public Library; it sells Telling Mansion for $755,000, minus the $50,000 the Library agrees to pay to redo the parking lot. No historic preservation that I can see-do you see any?

Read it for yourself: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60438010/Telling%20Mansion%20Purchase%20Agreement%20(executed)%2...


Mr. Barone seems to have agreed to abide by rules that let him do anything to Telling, including tear it down. Here is the link to the information about rules regarding preservation of buildings on the National Register of Historic Places. Please note that if no federal money is spent on the building, the owner can do "whatever they want". So, Telling will have no preservation at all that I see.

Also, on page 29, section "C", it looks as if Mr. Barone has been given another $20,000 by the Library to use on capital improvements.

So, $755,000 is the sale price.
Taxpayers add another $50,000 to pay for the parking lot.
Then taxpayers add another $20,000 for capital improvements.
Taxpayers will get about $685,000 out of this transfer from public ownership to ownership by one private individual.

Please post a comment below if I am wrong.