Peerless Mill
Les Coffey
In a prepared statement today, owner Les Coffey cited Rossville city officials’ creation of a “hostile and un-workable environment for the owners, tenants and employees of the site” as the main reason for demolishing the buildings and effectively shutting down Peerless Self Storage.
Coffey has had numerous run-ins with the Rossville Police Department, and lawsuits have previously been filed on both sides. In August, Coffey accused Rossville police chief Sid Adams of breaking and entering into the Peer-less site and of stealing property while there.
One month later, Coffey accused a former Peerless Mills tenant, David Rowan of Tek-Mak, of four counts of criminal trespassing, while Coffee himself faced felony charges of theft after a magistrate hearing between Coffey and Rowan lead detective Dave Scroggins to arrest both men.
Coffey’s prepared statement today accused the Rossville police of breaking into “certain portions of the complex,” stealing items and harassing the staff and tenants “to the point the project is no longer economically viable as an ongoing complex.”
A paid-in-full city of Rossville building permit for the demolition of Peerless Self Storage at 555 McFarland Ave. was issued to four members of the Coffey family, not including managing trustee and operator Les Coffey, this morning.
According to the statement, Coffey plans to leave at least one building and tenant untouched. “Pratters hard wood flooring building will stay as well as that tenant. The building is in excellent shape and the moving of the tenant would put them out of business as they cannot find another space to fit their needs.”
The rest of the site will be demolished according to occupancy, expediency and potential profit, Coffey said in the statement. All unoccupied areas will be demolished first, followed by sections “that will generate the most revenue to Peerless for the benefit of the creditors and the share holders.”
The land on which Peerless Self Storage sits will be leased long-term to Rossville Metals Recyclers LLC. “The intended use is for a scrap yard and potential waste transfer station,” the statement said.
Coffey plans to have all work completed by Dec. 31, 2011.
Coffey expresses his resentment at demolishing the site after owning and investing in Peerless Self Storage for the past four years.
“It is very regretful that a dream of mine will never be realized as I have invested four years of my life into this project. However, reality must take precedence over dreams and the reality is the City of Rossville and their man-agement will never allow the Peerless site to thrive.”
Site cleanup and demolition preparation is expected to begin immediately.
Since my grandmother has always told me to "Be Rossville", I will. I will ask you nicely to leave while the getting's good. Like "observantresident", it's not about business anymore, it's about you finding anyway to gain some dignity out from under your failures. Please spare all of us, yourself included. Be a big boy, smile, shake hands, and move on. Teach them a lesson that way. I don't know if you'll win or lose by pursuing your "junk yard" idea, but I know we'll all win if you can be the bigger man (whom no one has been so far). The biggest winners, should you choose to be the bigger man, will be you and your family.
We will be paying our taxes with the cash the city pays us monthly for using our sewer system. Also raw land does not have as much taxes.
So keep talking trash, but we have never asked the city or any agency for a dime.
I may not be present but will be running the scrap yard located here for decades to come and then my children will be doing it for more decades.
You and almost everyone else alive will be dead and gone before the Coffey name and family is out of Rossville.
You may be better served by electing officials that know how to deal with business people.
By the way, the city is just doing what we have tasked them to do. Because they won't allow you to cut corners and do as you bloody well please,you call it harassment.The city shouldn't have to rescue you from a bad investment.Maybe if you spent a quarter of the time actually working that you spend running everybody in the city down on these blogs,you would actually , you know, make a profit ?
I'm gonna miss you,too.
Bye, hell we are going to be running a junk yard out of the place for the next 50 years. We are not going anywhere.
This was the choice the city leaders made when they constantly harrased. We never asked them for anyting but assitance in getting renters and them to issue business lisence.
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I do not think you understand. The building looks better than the huge piles of trash and scrap metal that will be going in and out of there the next 30 years. That is not to mention the smell of garbage. Have you ever lived next to a landfil a waste trasnfer station?
I would not be celbrating if I were you.
The city leaders have managed to give the entire cunty a great big black eye.
Keep Smilin' Until Then...
( Repeat Chorus Until This Place Is Gone )