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RobertB
    
location:
Skeeterville, TX
Gender: Male
Maybe I shouldn't be using my real name...
 |  |  | Newly abandoned roach motel
< on 5/18/2009 2:33 PM >
|  | | | No pictures yet, but I live nearby and can confirm that the city has blocked the driveways with sawhorses, and put red and green "CONDEMNED" signs in all the appropriate places. I hope I can get a picture of the (slimy green) swimming pool before they fill it with the truckloads of dirt that were piled up next to it last night.
Code Inspectors Shut Down "Fire Trap" Hotel
By LITA BECK
Updated 11:45 PM CDT, Thu, May 14, 2009
http://www.nbcdfw....re-Trap-Motel.html
Mesquite inspectors are closing a motel that houses 104 people over fire and other safety concerns.
Inspectors said the Classic Inn Hotel on Highway 80 has more than 360 code violations this year and must close by Friday. The motel had 61 violations last year.
Mesquite is most concerned about fire hazards at the Classic Inn, city spokesman Greg Sowell said.
Fire marshals said 77 of the rooms have electrical problems.
"You have open wires near gas lines there," he said. "It doesn't take much."
Other units have mold, and the guardrails on the second story are broken.
"They've been really endeavoring to make this place livable," resident Mike Gilmore said.
He said management has made repairs to the room he calls home.
"I get a little over $900 a month," he said. "It takes $600 a month for this room."
Gilmore said he doesn't know what he will do after the hotel's closure.
"I don't know what I'm going to do," he said. "I may just end up eating all my medication at once and going to sleep."
When asked if he really felt that desperate, Gilmore said, "I have nothing else. I have absolutely nothing else."
Classic Inn representatives said they are continuing to appeal to the city for more time to make repairs.
"If there is things that need to be fixed, we'll fix them," employee Jamie Cunigan said. "Just give us time to get out."
Mesquite said it will have representatives at the motel Friday at 3 p.m. to ensure everyone is out of the facility. The city will also bring workers from Social Services to assist anyone with special needs who needs help with the move. |
Google aerial (since it's public knowledge, unsecured, and I want someone to take a picture of that dirt pile!): here.
My daughter asked, "If the weekly rate is $129, so it costs about $600 a month, why don't they just get an apartment?" The reason, I told her, is that you don't have a lease at a roach motel -- if you blow the rent money on drugs and booze, you just live on the street for a week or two until the next welfare check comes.
To be fair, though, there used to be a number of bicycles chained near rooms, implying that some residents were getting out and working, just down on their luck. Interestingly, I hadn't seen any bicycles in a few weeks -- I wonder if the more industrious residents saw the writing (and/or) mold on the wall, and moved to the Delux Inn just across the road.
J'ai toujours fait une prière à Dieu, qui est fort courte.
La voici: "Mon Dieu, rendez nos ennemis bien ridicules!"
Dieu m'a exaucé. |
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Happiedaze
  
location:
Galveston Area, TX
Gender: Female
| |  | | Re: Newly abandoned roach motel
<Reply # 1 on 5/18/2009 2:51 PM >
| | | | There is also a motel here in Arlington that recently was closed by the city. I drive past it everyday. Looks like some people have already made it in, as there is already tagging in the windows. I heard it closed due to some scandalous activities involving prostitutes.
'Our plans are all laid out,
take all these unmarked roads,
we blaze the trails to places no one goes, yeah!' -Rise Against |
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corbenator
location:
Cowtown, TX
Gender: Male
peek-a-boo, bitches
| |  | | Re: Newly abandoned roach motel
<Reply # 2 on 5/18/2009 3:10 PM >
|  | | | Fort Worth recently closed a rather historic hotel due to prostitution allegations and insects and things like that. It's just sitting there now, all boarded up. I really want to check it out, but it's such a sketch part of town I'm not sure exploring is the greatest idea. At least not alone.
"You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something." |
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