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This is just the cynic in me but they are most likely doing this for tax reasons or to not have to pay for demolition.
by Racing0461 3y ago
This is just the cynic in me but they are most likely doing this for tax reasons or to not have to pay for demolition.
- jasongill 3y agoNo they aren't; the building has been owned for nearly 20 years by a church and it's still got an active datacenter in it plus office space, etc. One of my companies had office space there and after we sold the business, the buyer expanded our footprint in the building which exists to this day as far as I have heard.
- sockaddr 3y ago> owned for nearly 20 years by a church and it's still got an active datacenter in it Is it Prayer as a Service?
- jasongill 3y agoThe original PaaS! No, it's some kind of church or religious group called Tree Of Life, they purchased the entire building and lease the data center portion to Expedient (a regional data center provider), do church service in the auditorium, and rent the offices out. Our offices were on the upper floor corner looking over the back parking lot along the road (near edge on the right of the building in the photo on the article)
- Dalewyn 3y agoService as a Service was right there.
- sockaddr 3y agoYeah, I messed that up
- CoastalCoder 3y agoSee, this is why HN needs a sister site where we can safely make puns without being downvoted.
- testplzignore 3y agoOhio's historic marker program doesn't give any protected status to the property they are located on afaik. It's just a touristy thing.
- JoshuaRogers 3y agoI wouldn't expect so. My (non-professional) understanding was that having historical status raised the amount of upkeep and approval required for modifications.
- renewiltord 3y agoI think it would be hard to tell in an Internet battle of uninformed takes whether "tax write off" beats "money laundering". Everything on the Internet gets this treatment. It's less cynicism and more just LLM-action.