These developers are a work in progress

[The Scribe]

These developers are a work in progress

Web Posted: 01/08/2006 12:00 AM CST

Greg Jefferson
Express-News Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES — Hunched over the wheel of an SUV nearly too big for the streets interlacing the Hollywood Hills, Dan Bailey races from one trophy home to another, reminiscing about deals, construction details and color schemes.

Gary Kazanjian/Special to the Express-News

Dan and Marlene Bailey look over a site in Hanford, Calif., where their HollyHills Development company will be building homes.

Seated behind him, his wife, Marlene Bailey, calls out more addresses to houses that their company, HollyHills Development, has rehabilitated in this exclusive neighborhood. She holds in her lap a thick binder stuffed with before-and-after pictures of properties.

By day's end, they've shown a visitor nearly 50 rehabs in the hills off Hollywood Boulevard and in markedly less fabulous neighborhoods near the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

HollyHills' early work in California, the Baileys' home state, was straightforward: Buy a residential or commercial property, make improvements, and sell it. The setting was glamorous, but the work wasn't.

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[midgetonadonkey]

The Scribe?? Like nobody would pick up on this, TheWriter. Everybody knows you suck HollyHills' cock.

[The Scribe]

The Scribe?? Like nobody would pick up on this, TheWriter. Everybody knows you suck HollyHills' cock.

Nice come back from a man who admitidly is on a donkey. :rolleyes

You can tell you are not from San Antonio because you are so anti-development.

[Mark in Austin]

Since 1999, the Baileys have fended off at least five lawsuits in Southern California brought by investors claiming they failed to repay their debts.

They settled each case, except for the latest, filed two months ago in Los Angeles by an investor named Walter Holiday, who claims he's still owed nearly $681,000 on a $750,000 loan, plus interest.

Dan Bailey expects to settle that one as well.

"As you've seen in the other lawsuits, we'll basically figure out what needs to be done fairly and appropriately, and deal with him accordingly," Bailey said.

In a 2002 lawsuit, Paul and June Nagel, a couple in Oceanside, claimed the Baileys failed to repay $122,797 of a $275,000 promissory note with an annual interest rate of 12 percent. The Baileys settled the case by handing over a property for the Nagels to sell.

June Nagel said they got their principal back, but not the interest. And her recollection of Dan Bailey was shaded with anger.

"He is very personable, very professional," she said in September. "He has a take-charge personality. He gives the impression that he's doing you a favor, even if he owes you all the money."

Bailey acknowledged missing the note's due date, but said he'd repaid numerous loans with the Nagels before then.


Wow an ex-con that hasn't learned his lesson. Just the man to lead San Antonio into development nirvana.

[BuddyHolly]

The Scribe?? Like nobody would pick up on this, TheWriter. Everybody knows you suck HollyHills' cock.

Yeah, not me. Kori or Timvp can confirm this.

Please don't pretend to be me The Scribe.

[blaze89]

The HollyHills project will most likely go bust, they'll probably have a couple of housing projects but not the grand project they are promising.

Let's see what they do...

[Buddy Holly]

The HollyHills EastSide Vision project (sans the stadiums) is contingent on private funding. The hotels, housing, office, retail would all be built via private funding.

The stadiums would be the only that would not be built via private funds unless it was a private-public co-venture between a sports team and city or county.

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Here's some updated Marlins news, needless to say it's doesn't look like the Marlins will fit in Portland:


Portland mayor doesn't see city backing Marlins

Jan. 9, 2006
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Mayor Tom Potter said Monday he has a "very strong sense" that most Portlanders don't care about landing a Major League Baseball team and reiterated his position that the city will not help finance a ballpark for the Florida Marlins.

Potter spoke after meeting with Marlins president David Samson and other team officials, who are touring potential new homes for the franchise.

"My concern is that Portland is facing a crisis in education," Potter said. "That's my top priority, to find funding for that. And I expressed that today."

Samson said a "public-private" partnership is a must because there's no way the Marlins would pay for an entire stadium project.

"Governments do make decisions when they attract businesses to the community," Samson said.

"Baseball is not the only industry, by any stretch, to ask for government help when deciding where to have its corporate headquarters."

In 2003, Oregon legislators approved a stadium plan that would allow the income taxes from players and other team personnel to be diverted to a fund to pay off bonds used to build the stadium.

"What the state does is its own business," Potter said.

Samson compared Monday's meeting to a first date and said it was too soon to consider Potter's position a potential obstacle.

"Today it was just about meeting the mayor and getting to know him, and that's what I focused on," he said. "I don't really focus too much on public comments -- positive or negative -- because it's too premature."

Portland is the second stop on Samson's tour of potential sites, following San Antonio.

AP NEWS
The Associated Press News Service

[Buddy Holly]

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For those of you who have never seen the renderings for what HollyHill's has proposed.

[xrayzebra]

What you want to bet that they get to our city council like a bee does to
honey. In a few months the whole of the city council will be singing their praises
of these folks. And they will be reaping the tax abatement's plus more of your
tax money. Almost give you two to one odds.

[Buddy Holly]

What you want to bet that they get to our city council like a bee does to
honey. In a few months the whole of the city council will be singing their praises
of these folks. And they will be reaping the tax abatement's plus more of your
tax money. Almost give you two to one odds.

Sure, I wouldn't doubt that.

[xrayzebra]

Sure, I wouldn't doubt that.

I see where Solis just went to work for them. Since he got fired, oh,
forgot he resigned from the county......yeah sure.