Digging through public records we have the information regarding the real estate listed on the 2011 tax forms of the Main Street Gloucester Preservation Trust also known as the Gloucester Main Street Preservation Trust. The following is what we have dug up from public records.
This is the majority of the property we believe to be under the Trust. So what we see is that the Trust receives payments from Gloucester County under a lease agreement for space used by the public library. Your tax dollars funding a part of the secret shadow government infiltrating Gloucester county government. Gloucester County pays out about 20 thousand dollars a month for leased space in both locations in the county as found on the county's own yearly budget information. The Main Street location being much larger of the two, we are sure that the majority of the lease payments under the 20 thousand goes to the GMSPT, a non profit, Trust, fraternity according to their own records.
The library shopping center on Main Street
This is the majority of the property we believe to be under the Trust. So what we see is that the Trust receives payments from Gloucester County under a lease agreement for space used by the public library. Your tax dollars funding a part of the secret shadow government infiltrating Gloucester county government. Gloucester County pays out about 20 thousand dollars a month for leased space in both locations in the county as found on the county's own yearly budget information. The Main Street location being much larger of the two, we are sure that the majority of the lease payments under the 20 thousand goes to the GMSPT, a non profit, Trust, fraternity according to their own records.
The library shopping center on Main Street
Map# Last Name First Name RPC Land Value Improvements Value
32A2(9)-1A GREGORY YVONNE 33565 $500.00 $0.00 $104,500.00
32A2(9)-2A GREGORY YVONNE 41228 $1,023,200 $255,100 $1,278,300
32A2(9)-2A THE MAIN ST. TRUST 41227 00 $1,201,500 $1,201,500
32A2(9)-3A GREGORY YVONNE 41229 $10,600 $0.00 $10,600
Map Last Name First Name RPC Land Value Improvements Value
32A2(9)-2A GREGORY YVONNE 41228 $1,023,200 $255,100 $1,278,300
32A2(9)-2A THE MAIN ST. TRUST 41227 00 $1,201,500 $1,201,500
32A2(9)-3A GREGORY YVONNE 41229 $10,600 $0.00 $10,600
32A2(1)BK A-3A THE MAIN ST. TRUST 42949 $58,500 $0.00 $58,500
32A2(1)BK A-3G THE MAIN ST TRUST 13876 $760,600 $2,459,000 $3,219,600
32A2(1)BK A-3J THE MAIN ST TRUST 42950 $22,000 $0.00 $22,000
32A2(12)-1 THE MAIN STREET TRUST 35133 $1,800 $0.00 $1,800
-Map 32A2(9)-2A is the parking lot area of the library, health dept., etc.
-Map 32A2(1)BK A-3A is a corner lot located in proximity to the grass area between Main Street and the library
-Map 32A2(1)BK A-3G is the property the buildings sits on. The property is much larger than the building.
-Map 32A2(1)BK A-3J is a property behind the meeting place building
-Map 32A2(12)-1 is a very narrow property between Map 32A2(1)BK A-3A and Main Street.
The above numbers would seem to agree with yesterday's posting information and tax returns information. The link on yesterday's post shows 2012 figures but no tax returns. The above figures are right in line with 2012's information.
So the income for the trust, from what we can gather, comes in the form of lease payments from the ownership of the property known as the Gloucester Main Street Shopping Center. This is the same property that they depreciated over 1.7 million dollars on for 2011 as seen in their tax form filing. How they did that we have no idea. How they get away with not following what other business owners must now follow thanks to the GMSPT involvement with the county is also highly questionable. How is it that they have not been forced to tear up their parking lot to put in flower beds?
Also, according to the 2011 tax form from the Main Street Gloucester Preservation Trust, they did not pay out any grant money to any businesses. So where did the money come from that the local paper keeps reporting that the GMSPT has awarded? State or Federal funds that the GMSPT brokered on behalf of those local businesses and take credit for? We don't know and there is no way to tell. The 2011 tax form left it blank where the GMSPT or the MSGPT is supposed to show grants held and then paid out.
Does anyone find this suspicious? And we want these people promoting Gloucester why? Are they pocketing fees for brokering services and farming those jobs to themselves through their own businesses not shown to be in connection with them? Legal fees to Ingles law firm maybe? Again, we do not know. We can only ask the questions based on what we see. According to the GMSPT website, they seem to be brokering commercial real estate. We have no problem with them brokering real estate unless of course they are collecting extra fees and sending business to certain buddies of the GMSPT and they are the only ones who can handle the business. Even then it may be okay as long as they are not purposely playing interested parties and milking extra fees from them. But again, there is where questions come into play. Are certain people using the GMSPT as a front for other activities? As a non profit Trust fraternity that has no other source of income other than real estate lease payments, it looks very strange at best.
And why does a Gloucester County Board of Supervisor need to sit on the Board of this organization? Again, based on what we see, there is no real reason for that. And we must continue to ask, why is this Trust Fraternity so interested in making plans that affect taxpayers and businesses within the county? They are not a charitable corporation like others in other areas are. So again, this makes no sense. You have to ask a lot of questions based on the public information of this and it's sister organizations, The Gloucester Main Street Association, supported in part by the GMSPT, and the Cook Foundation. The folks who brought us the Beehives that polluted the county landscape then the landfills.
Anyone know how that Beehive deal worked? We found out. Here was the deal as it was explained to us. You had to buy the Beehive and decorate it yourself at your expense. You then had to give it back to the Cook Foundation once it was decorated. If you wanted it back, you had to pay for it again. No joke. They pulled that off and had those Beehives everywhere for a year. But hey, it was for charity. Who's benefit is the question however. You can still buy the Beehive posters at the county Welcome Center located in the historic Courthouse Circle, if you are so inclined though. A reminder of those fun times and the landfill deposits.
This is an inverted image of one of those Beehives mentioned above. They were about 4 feet tall if memory serves correctly. There were hundreds of them around the county and now there are hundreds of them in the local landfill still waiting to decay. How green was that move?