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Temple Terrace CRA to include demolition of dilapidated restaurant at 8447 N. 50th St. in FY2024 budget
Summary
The CRA board approved placing funds in the FY2024 CRA budget to demolish an 8,000-square-foot, city-owned former restaurant at 8447 North 50 Sixth Street; staff estimated demolition costs just under $50,000 and cited repeated board-ups, trespassing and roughly 300 police responses over five years.
The Community Redevelopment Agency voted to include funding in the fiscal year 2024 CRA budget to demolish an 8,000-square-foot former restaurant at 8447 North 50 Sixth Street, a city-owned property staff said is structurally compromised and has been vacant since 2018.
Business Relations Manager Greg Pauley told the board the building was originally built in 1974, changed hands several times as different restaurants and was taken into city ownership in February 2004, reacquired in 2014 and remains on the city’s property roll. Pauley said the structure is “simply not salvageable” and staff estimates the demolition cost “just under $50,000.”
Pauley said public works personnel have boarded up broken windows and doors more than 50 times in five years and police have responded “a total of 300 times to various complaints and calls over that same 5 year period,” describing repeated trespassing, dumping and safety concerns that, he said, harm marketability and public perception of the CRA.
Board members questioned whether demolition would change the appraised value; Pauley responded the building has “0 value” and that valuation is based on the land. Pauley and board members clarified staff is asking only for funding to remove the building and return a rough grade to the site, not to repair pavement or perform full-site regrading at this time.
Board member Abel asked whether demolition would make the property more attractive to developers; Pauley said brokers told staff the old building has stalled interest because demolition is an additional expense for buyers. Board member Schisler stressed public-safety and recurring police costs, and urged prompt action.
A motion to include the demolition cost in the CRA FY2024 budget was moved and seconded, amended to specify placement in the FY2024 CRA budget, and adopted by the board with no recorded nays.
The board did not direct immediate demolition work to begin; staff indicated funding could be transferred from quarterly general-fund contributions and intergovernmental contributions typically arrive by December, allowing staff to start the project as early as October depending on cash flow and final budget approval.
