AT 205 VINE STREET IN PLATTE CITY
Platte County has agreed to purchase a vacant lot at 205 Vine Street in Platte City, a move designed to eventually increase parking area for patrons of county buildings and for county employees.
The vacant lot is immediately adjacent to the parking lot that the county owns at the southwest corner of Third and Vine Streets, near the Platte County Administration Building.
“The owners are willing to sell the lot to the county for future county facility and parking needs,” says an order on the agenda for the Platte County Commission.
According to county documents, the appraised value of the lot is $27,000, and that is the purchase price listed in the real estate contract.
According to the county, closing costs in the transaction are estimated to be less than $3,000, for a total budget impact of $30,000.
Current owners of the property are Harold Sherwood and Sharon Sherwood, husband wife.
“The owner approached us and we appraised it and made an offer,” Wes Minder, county administrator, told The Landmark on Monday.
Minder said he estimates at least 30 additional parking spaces could be added with the addition of this lot.
No firm decision on when the county will add the additional parking spaces has yet been made. Minder said he will have the consultant who is doing a Downtown Platte City study to project when would be a good time to start planning on upgrading.
“We need to change the psychology of employees and patrons parking on Main Street to free those spots up for businesses,” Minder remarked.
The legal description of the involved property is “all of lot 4, and the east one half of lot 5, block 22, City of Platte City, Platte County, Missouri.”
According to the contract, buildings on the premises “shall be kept insured under the terms as presently insured by the seller, in offices satisfactory to the buyer, and, in case of any loss, all sums recovered or recoverable on account of this insurance shall be paid over or assigned, on delivery of the deed, to the buyer, unless the premises shall previously have been restored to their former condition by the seller.”
