$2.4M State Warehouse Lease Renews Procurement Questions
ICPR Board Chair Hon. Susan Garrett was quoted in this article
via – The State Journal-Register
“Controversy surrounding a former furniture store in Springfield highlights the problems of a state lease procurement system dogged by bureaucracy, reliance on old-fashioned paper files and a state unable to pay its bills.
The former Barney’s Furniture store, 2410 South Grand Ave. E., was sold in January for $575,000 to Climate Controlled Holdings LLC of Chicago, according to records at the Sangamon County Assessor’s Office. At the time of the sale, the county put the fair market value of the 60,000-square-foot structure at just over $1.2 million. The furniture business relocated last year to a larger facility at Chatham Road and Wabash Avenue.
The building was converted to a climate-controlled warehouse for Illinois Department of Human Services records.”
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