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Williams County denies two 2024 property tax abatement requests from Renaissance entities
Summary
The Williams County Board of County Commissioners voted to deny two 2024 property tax abatement requests brought by Renaissance Station LLC and Renaissance on Main LLC after the county assessor recommended denial based on valuation methodology and noncomparable broker data.
The Williams County Board of County Commissioners voted Feb. 3 to deny two property tax abatement requests for 2024 submitted by Renaissance Station LLC and Renaissance on Main LLC, following recommendations from the Williams County assessor’s office.
Christie Gutierrez, an appraiser with the assessor’s office, told commissioners Renaissance Station’s 2024 valuation was $837,790 while the applicant requested $675,000 — a claimed difference of $162,790. Gutierrez said the building at 13,176 square feet was built in 1913, later converted from a post office, and staff applied a 30% combined deduction to account for awkward layout, historic status and a basement that adds less value compared with modern office basements. Gutierrez recommended denying the abatement.
After brief discussion and a motion to deny the request as recommended by staff, the board carried the motion by roll call.
Gutierrez then presented a second abatement petition from Renaissance on Main LLC. The assessor’s packet listed a 2024 valuation of $6,416,670; the applicant requested $5,000,000, a difference of $1,416,670. Gutierrez described the property as a mixed-use structure built in 2015–2016 with retail, office, multifamily apartments (30 units) and attached heated garage floors. She said staff used cost-to-replace methods for the commercial floors and an income approach for the apartment units, relying on 2023 market data for modeling. Gutierrez told the board that the broker’s CBRE comparables cited by the applicant were mostly outside the county, occurred after the 2023 valuation window, and therefore were not appropriate evidence for a 2024 change. She recommended denial.
Commissioners moved and seconded a motion to deny the Renaissance on Main abatement as recommended by staff; the motion passed on roll call.
The board’s denials preserve the assessor’s 2024 valuations for both parcels. The assessor’s office noted the applicant-supplied broker opinion understated square footage in one case and used sales outside the applicable valuation period in the other.
