I wouldn't want to attribute it to anything like courage. I'd say it's pathological childhood.

Yes, hannah, serious. It was like she owned the place.

I'm at the library right now and she's parked near the front door in a no-parking place like she's the Queen of Sheba!!!

At least here I can agree with localboy. The current property owner is using it to generate a tax loss, nothing more. The building only went on sale after the city got on his "case".
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According to another article, Case Feed closed in 2002. The building has had no other use since.
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I've been doubting that your name is gina.

If anyone is in doubt my legal name is Smith.

It's even more easy to assassinate when your need for unearned notoriety makes you oblivious to what the real world thinks of your slanderous and libelous rants.

It's also easy to assassinate when the wide latitude of the First Amendment can be so irresponsibly exploited.

It's also easy to assassinate when the station manager of JATV 98 says if you are libeled or slandered by B'moon on JATV, your only recourse is to involve yourself in the hellish world of litigation against someone who only feeds on such hellishness -and is without assets.

And it's easy to criticize anonymity when you haven't been libeled or slandered by someone who can do so with impunity.

gina51- being anonymous is what makes this all the fun. Yours truely, Local Smith

It's pretty easy to assassinate someone on a public forum when you don't have to use your real names. What a cowardly bunch. Wonder if you would all be so bold if you had to disclose your name ? Gina Smith

Hasn't this building been empty for many years? I do remember going in there in the early 90's on a hunt for rabbit food, but I can't remember when Case closed. Does anyone know how long it's been for sale? More than enough time has gone by and I really don't think the owner has any intentions of fixing the building. I agree that it "used" to be a very neat looking building. I see the missing bricks on the front and can't imagine that it's safe, so I think it should be torn down. I'm all for preserving history, but not at taxpayer expense. Especially Janesville, especially now :(

JasonTh - why would the current owner wait for orders from the city to fix the building? If they had good intentions, it wouldn't be in the current condition. Therefore, why would we wait for the current owner to "raise" funds to fix it?

It may be a piece of history - but unless it's fixed, it's dangerous. Reality has to play a part of the decision making - if it isn't fixed it could harm someone. Give the owner the opportunity to raise funds to fix the building or demolish it to ensure the public safety is ensured.

If the frame is sagging and a wall is bowing out - yet, it's very likely that a door came open on its own. And for a council member to be walking around his or her district tells me that they actually give a damn about their constituents... bravo - other council members may want to take notes.

Let Briarmoon/woodsman howl away - the more attention you give this nut, the more they think they actually matter.

If a mental illness explains B'moon's willingness to slander, libel, disrupt, and cruelly harm others in the public arena then the best therapy for her is reality therapy.

She is delusional and takes the slightest affirmation, real or imagined, as support for her delusions.

The best thing for her is to be criticized and corrected re: her bizarre, hostile vision of reality. There's nothing else that will do her or her victims any good. Sympathy will only encourage her. She needs to be told as often as possible that she is out of touch with realty.

The clinical approach for treatment will be ineffective and will only encourage her megalomania, narcissism, and paranoia.

Save your sympathy and good intentions for her victims. Use your energy and good intentions to correct her.

Also run, I said I worked with her not that I was a realtor

Run, you missed my point to Hannah, she is in glee that a woman who may have a mental illness is fired and not getting help

Hannah, what do you have against Andreah, you seem to know quite abit about her, as your post on Dec. 20. 2007 at 2:36 pm as you stated that she had been fired from Shorewest, is an exapmle of. I worked with her and yes, she is a bit paranoid and a bit of a "pit bull with lipstick" with her opinions. Andreah does not have the following to ruin the infrastucture of Janesville but your constant references to her being "fired" shows that you are not a very compasionate person.

I for one am pretty sad the building is in such poor shape.It could have been the new location for our "free stuff" that my neighbors have been looking for.

I heard that there is an offer pending on the old Case feed building today

Karen beauty "IS" in the eye of the beholder. Am i to take "YOUR EYES" are not that of the beholder!!

I have always thought that the Case Feed building was cool looking! It does need a lot of work but I think it should be saved. I also live two blocks from it and see it quite often. We already have several vacant lots in the area because of buildings that were deemed "unsafe".

It is an old, old building and needs to go!! It is an eyesore for anyone entering our city on Hwy. 51. You don't see me bellyaching, my aunt and uncle lived in the upstairs apartment approx. 25 years ago and it was about ready to fall apart then!! I also agree with most of the vacant buildings in Janesville, either use them or get rid of them!! Look how long it took for someone to put something where the old Hardees building was on West Court. Sure, they are history, but the library has a room called "The Janesville Room", you can go in there and look at all the history you want!!!

If you sit in Bad Brads and look over at the Case building you can see the deterioration of the east side of the building. Bill Truman has probably seen this view, as he stops in to socialize with his constituents. The dangerous deterioration is not noticable from Center Ave.

I didn't think the appetites of different cultures would offend someone,food is food! Say what you want about the move of marshall jr.high. Maybe it was in the package deal,sell farm land,build new houses,promises new school in neighborhood,let poor neighborhoods get poorer. It's always been north & east side gets it all,so the poor can get poorer trying to scape money to get their kids to school. The well off always takes care of their own.

Is it me or does Woodsman seem like a pseudonym for Briarmoon, or maybe one of her latest short term beaus?

woodsman - I am sure you graduated from a one room school and wonder why we can't still use that system. Times change. The Marshall building was so old, that the money it would have required to keep it up to code, and be able to handle the technology that was approaching the schools, it was more cost effective in the long run to build a new one. To a set of investors, you could spend some money up front and the building would continue to pay back in the form of apartments. Schools don't pay up front directly in monetary terms. This was all up front and nothing sneaky about it.

This building is another opportunity for certain people to project their personal frustration onto the rest of the world by exploiting the tolerance and latitudes of a democratic system.

The building has been an eyesore for years. Tear it down.

Woodsman: I don't consider a dangerous, falling-down building part of a "perfect world". Of course it's history, but if it can't be repaired and maintained, history or no history, it's not right to allow it to remain a threat or endangerment to others. I am all for preserving historical buildings - but only if they can be returned to original condition WITHOUT spending taxpayer's money. There are too many other places for that money to go.

Its sad to see an historic building fall into disrepair. If it has to come down than so be it. I just hope that spot does not get redeveloped.

I see history,you see a mess! If these things don't agree with your sensitive eyes,& perfect world, DON"T LOOOOOK AT THEM!!!! They kicked the kids out of MARSHALL JR. high school,said it wasn't safe,just a ploy to spent tax payers money,then let old people live their. Did we all forget that our leaders said it was unsafe??

the rats are at it again.

Oh, for crying out loud!! The building's a mess and a threat to man and beast and you peole are howling about conspiracies and inadequacies within the system????

Briarmoon's dump was a mess too. The city did the right thing. The eyesore is gone! Municipalities aren't out to "get" one person!!

See it as it is....a dangerous building that they've given the owner time to repair or demolish. End of conflict!!

It is very difficult for the city to get these eyesores repaired or removed. A lot of taxpayer money is spent on lawyers to try to get owners and mortgage holders to do what any reasonable and responsible person can see is necessary. Many times the owners and mortgage holders live in another city or state and have little interest in complying with the city and really don't care what the property looks like or the effect it has on property values in the area. To further complicate matters, many of these properties are in debt for far more than they are worth at current market values, so anything that you do today is a losing proposition. Better, easier, and cheaper to do nothing and wait.

The paranoids are out to get us!!!

Clark, the city budgeted for increased city inspection staffing in 2009 -- I think it's a part-time position all year plus another full-time position in the summer, or the reverse. The council did hear everyone asking for more code enforcement.
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I'm personally sad to see the likely end of the road for one of the few buildings remaining from the old Rockport business district, which was platted as a separate city from Janesville, but never incorporated. It's a lovely building, and architecturally intact, but probably too expensive to economically rehab at this point unless there's a happy confluence of the city's contemplated TIF and a sympathetic developer. (This intersection was a targeted demonstration area in the recently adopted Central City Neighborhoods Plan, with ideas for (re)creating a walkable mixed-use district.)

woodsman you clearly have issues. The point of the article is that this may be an unsafe building that the owner must be accountable for. I'll play your little game... OK, someone at city hall made up the Bill Truman story just so they could have a made up reason to pick on the landowner. IS THAT REALLY WHAT YOU WANNA WASTE YOUR TIME COMPLAINING ABOUT? How about, "Regardless of how the condition of the building came into question, THANK YOU, city employees for protecting our city by recognizing and addressing a potential safety hazard." If it is unsafe and the wall falls, anyone walking or driving by could be hurt or killed. I wish the city would take a more proactive approach and send someone out into the city to identify more of these, instead of waiting for a complaint.

WOODSMAN How can you call it job security they don,t get paid,they take time from family,fun,just to makeJVL and the forthward a cleaner safer place to live as a former forthwarder most of my life.I think all involved in cleaning it up are doing a fine job keep it up!!

What a shock?

rockstars, idiot, localboy...., it's interesting that you'll run into people who agree with her on sites like this or even sometimes in public. Because when it comes to her actually having active support, she has none. If there were anything to her delusional rants she'd have thousands of people on her side. Haven't any of her remote defenders noticed that? Her rants reveal alienation, and alienated she truly is. She is severely lacking in the skills that would allow her to work with other people. She appears to be what she actually is: off all alone just howling at the moon.

woodsman- hopefully I will not have the satisfaction of seeing you eat your words when the building collapses and hurts or kills somebody. This is a potentially unstable vacant building with doors hanging open for anyone to just walk right in? Even good kids do stupid things and the potential for injury or death is too great for the city to do nothing. Your conspiracy theory makes you sound like one of Briarmoon's CARD lunatics.

Two thumbs up, localboy and gazettefan!

gazettefan - if you have to explain to others Briarmoon's antics in order to prove a victim point, it is probably not worth the time or effort on your part. They would have to be living under a rock to not know about her childish, hippy, defiant, anti-authoritive, anti-responsible, astrological driven motives and actions.

Bill Truman is an independent councilman who represents the people of Janesville. He lives in the Fourth Ward where the Case Building is. He cares about the Fourth Ward.

crunch....., in her malleable world of cause and effect, and victimhood, being the agent in this matter is foundation enough for her to assume the role of victim. Bolstering her newest crusade will be her claim that she is the champion of another victim and all victims. At least one post here already shows her ability to convince some people that she's a victim.

BILL TRUMAN,just happened to be going by the building and seen a door open! Give me and ALL the ignorant people of janesville a break,you people must really think us citizens are really stupid. This is just another building the city wants gone. I get so tired of these so called GODS of janesville out there to protect us peon's.Is this job security,or more government tax payers money waste??? What's lurking in the gods back yards? that they try and keep us focused on things,other then them?

This building, the pile of junk across the street from Case, the old Taco Bell on Milton Ave, etc, etc.... How does the city let those buildings go without mention? I find it odd how some structures in Janesville can be caving in on themselves and they just go on for years that way and then the city finds a pet project that they are going to focus on such as the Case building. I don't doubt that Case is in bad shape, I just have to wonder where the line starts and stops for the city to act on an eyesore or structurally on-safe buildings?

No coincidence. She deliberately positioned herself to once again be a "victim", knowing full well that the building is condemnable or beyond repair.

Really? Go figure.