Opinion ID: 2010991
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Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Counsel's Letter on Behalf of CCS

Text: On September 13, 2006, Stabler, the attorney who represented CCS in the variance application before the ZBA, sent a letter on behalf of CCS to Joseph G. DiPinto, economic development director for the City of Wilmington. Stabler sent a carbon copy of the letter to counsel for the appellees/petitioners-below Jeffrey S. Goddess and to PDI's president and its executive director. In the letter, Stabler referred to CCS as my client multiple times. She wrote that we received the written decision of the City of Wilmington Board of Adjustment yesterday ... and are looking forward to obtaining the remaining approvals over the next few months. I did try to reach out to Jeff Goddess but he has not returned my call. She wrote that she hoped to reopen negotiations between CCS and the City about CCS's plans to develop Gibraltar and stated that we hope we can count on the City's continued support as the project proceeds. She also stated that my client has the Gibraltar property under contract  and is the EQUITABLE OWNER of the property. She said CCS had spent hundreds of thousands in engineering and other fees in a good faith effort to get to this point. Finally, she concluded that CCS would prefer to have the funds it is devoting to hearings, superfluous and duplicative conservation overlay proposals and a potential appeal to be devoted to the best and most successful historic adaptive reuse and rehabilitation project that the City has ever seen.