Wednesday, June 16, 2021

NEECE AGREES: THE PURCHASE OF THE GALONSKY CASA DEL NYLON WAS A $2.3 MILLION LEMON, NOW FOR LEMONADE...

(Ed.'s Note: It's been eight years since the city plunked down an exorbitant $2.3 million to buy the Casa del Nylon from local land baron Abraham Galonky pushed by former Mayor Tony Martinez who told the city commission that the UT System wanted to use it to move the university into downtown Brownsville.

That turned out to be untrue, and the building has become an eyesore and a magnet for vagrants and the homeless. Now the city – through the Brownsville Community Improvement Corporation – is throwing another $2.5 million in grants and local matches to try to resurrect its use and implement something called the “e-Bridge Center for Business & Commercialization."

It'll be months before the building is ready and years before the implementation of the program and no one can guarantee that it will succeed.. But for now Neece – who is in a runoff for reelection to District 4 – held a "groundbreaking" today behind a chain link fence to tout the building's resurrection. In other words, using a public asset for political purposes.

In the photo at right, construction workers in the back are probably wondering how commissioners Nurith Galonsky – Abraham's daughter – and Neece will break through the concrete foundations with their shovels to break through the ground.

Neece, who rents an apartment from the Galonskys, is just about the only person in town willing to defend the Casa del Nylon purchase.)

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

You can see in the picture el half coco retard ladyboy sleeping at the entrance! Probably tired after dumpsters diving all day! Hahahahaha!


Anonymous said...

while some told Insider's Kate Duffy they're welcoming the economic boom it had created.
With the cartel ONLY nothing else...
if you're downwind you can smell it

Anonymous said...

5 officers fired after man dies by suicide alone in interview room: Savannah police
WOW with the cops nothing is sacred anymore you're in danger of dying at any moment at any place and now they don't have to arrest you just invite you over for a cup of coffee or coke.

Anonymous said...

Looks like el idiota de snowflake hillbilly coco wanna be white pinche dumpster diver. Just like a pendejo blocking the doors idiota

Anonymous said...

Neece may not have been in the original fuckup, but he did nothing to bring it to light, either. He just let it roll.

Vote for Pedro.

He was not involved in the Casa del Nylon scam!

Anonymous said...

Mojados for ALL city of Brownsville elected offices vote for all of them "REGARDLESS". Matamoscas numero dos

Anonymous said...

You mean La Casa Del Fraude

Anonymous said...

2.3 million is no joke and nowhere near what the city should have paid, well someone got paid. Now NURITH is making a sob story on FB of the building they sold like a hot potato. Crocodile tears.

Neece have the balls to saw the TRUTH, it was an abuse, the taxpayers got FUBAR....

Anonymous said...

Ben is for Ben, Pedro you're no better. You are in it for yourself, your family and friends. You say you don't go to forums because you will only have district 4 to listen to? Wake up, District 4 is still in Brownsville, Texas. Don't trust you either, everyone has skeletons in their closets. Pedro winning district 4 isn't all about Casa de Nylon. All you say is what wrong the other guy does , but what is your platform, your vision for Brownsville? Speak up. You probably say, if the crooked Casa De Nylon lady won an election, I can too . I"ll do whatever I want and get all the insider information for your partners in crime. To the whole board, if the shoe fits wear it. If you're an honest person , then you are better off.

Anonymous said...

@June 16, 2021 at 10:05 AM

Pedro, Pedro, Pedro, Is that your only argument? Pedro what is your platform and what do you stand for or do you want to be in the ranking of John Cowen, P. Sampayo, N. Galonsky? Do you feel left out of the insider information these people are getting and want a piece of the big pie too? All these mentioned have money to their name and want more and I have no respect for the names you all of you represent. Is this what your parents taught you? I knew some of you when you were young and some of your parents carried that same chip on their shoulders. What a scary and lethal learned behavior. Ben Neece is no better.

Anonymous said...

He had his chance, and didn't do shit. Time to give someone new a chance. Same for the others. They had their chance, and haven't done shit so get rid of them! Keep getting rid of these crooks till we get someone good.

Sad thing is crooked people keep running, and crooked people keep getting elected, because all their crooked friends and family elect them in.

Anonymous said...

Ben cortate el pelo y ya no uses bolsa. Pareces vieja. Andas bien LTBGQ. Ya nomas falta que uses falda.

Anonymous said...

Someone shared this yesterday. It was written by Jerry McHale.

Nurith Galonsky, a member of the Greater Brownsville Incentives Corporation (GBIC), was granted a Temporary Restraining Order by Judge Louis Sorola after arguing that her organization's hiring of Mario Lozoya as its executive director was illegal for several reasons.

With the controversy raging, Jim Barton, the publisher of The Brownsville Observer, is asking aloud if Galonsky is "corrupt or simply reading comprehension deficient?" Here is the extended text of his inquiry:

Rightly or wrongly, thanks to Tony Martinez, the name Galonsky will always be associated with corrupt politics in Brownsville, inside dealing and defrauding the hardworking taxpayers in the poorest region in the U.S.

Abraham Galonsky came to Brownsville c.1972 and became a downtown merchant selling never used but dated merchandise, much of it still in original packaging at La Casa del Nylon at 1304 E. Adams Street.

We don't know how profitable that enterprise was. In recent years, no customers were in the store when we stopped in, but Galonsky, much like Bill Hudson, was active in the local real estate market, acquiring downtown buildings and tracts of land outside the city's center. La Casa del Nylon had a "For Sale" sign on it for many years.

In 2012, Galonsky's property got a bite. Newly-elected Mayor Martinez, desperate to keep then UTB President Juliet Garcia placated with promises of a downtown location for the university, sent his doofus law partner, Horacio Barrera, to "negotiate" with Galonsky for a purchase price.

The two men agreed on a purchase price of $2,300,000, three times the building's appraised value, all to be paid for by Brownsville's uninformed taxpayers. We don't know what Barrera's commission was on the sale or whether or not he divided it with Martinez, but the city's taxpayers lost on this deal.

For the last six years the building has sat decaying--off the tax rolls--while Brownsville's hardworking taxpayers pay for it.

That is a brief synopsis of the elder Galonsky's political defecation on Brownsville. Now enters daughter Nurith Galonsky, a non-practicing lawyer, her legal degree coming from SMU in 2001.

We first knew there was a Galonsky daughter in 2013 when she became a member of the P.U.B. board, shortly after Tony, Horacio and Abraham fleeced the taxpayers. We wrongly reported her name as "Lourdes Galonsky," writing this response in 2013:

"I received a call today from a 'friend of the family' of Brownsville resident, Lourdes Galonsky, stating that she was NOT a recent appointee to the P.U.B. Board as I had reported in an August 29, 2013 Mean Mister Brownsville article. The 'friend,' a male, indicated not only had Lourdes not been appointed to a board, she was not politically-oriented, a stay-at-home mom and did not know Deborah Portillo, the city commissioner making the swing vote in the appointment.

"In a friendly way, the caller asked if I was familiar with a lawsuit filed by the wife of BISD School Board Trustee Otis Powers, where he claimed she recovered $75,000 for being wrongly identified in a published article. I apologize to Lourdes and family for any stress created by my error."

No, it was not Lourdes Galonsky, but Nurith Galonsky who joined the P.U.B. board in 2013. Along with Mayor Martinez, she has had a hand in orchestrating the $100,000,000 increase in utility rates for Brownsville to build the Tenaska Power Plant.

That power plant has not been built, but the taxpayer money has not been recovered. Nurith may have never tried a case as a practicing attorney, but she, along with our corrupt mayor, has severely tried the citizens of Brownsville with this boondoggle.

Anonymous said...

Damn the Brownsville City Commissioner's still don't see what is happening at the Brownsville Police Department. FELIX "El Chapo" Sauceda-Bernal has No Clue WTF he is doing..The guy is so clueless he has allowed his Life Partner El Rata Bernal to run the Police Department..
With Criminal Indictments falling left and Right for Officers and one coming for El Chapo Sauceda-Bernal. Chief Sauceda- Bernal has made the Police Department and extremely Hostile work environment.
#worstchiefever...

Anonymous said...

That's why el grifo is here he saw all the illegal dealings and hitched a ride to stupid brownsville and like a hollywood script estos pendejetes oficiales bid la sardina en el gancho. How many more wonderful projects like the bridge to no where, the power plant, la casa del fraude, the selling of all the building at and around the civic center, the selling of boca chica, the viewing castle to see exploding rockets, WHEN BUT WHEN will the local voter get smart, better yet when will a real and HONEST person stand up and run for office? I SEE NO HOPE. The FBI needs to come here with a giant sweeper and clean up this village.

Anonymous said...

Que piernas!

Anonymous said...

Mojado is that what you people want! Look at their results - just go across and look for yourself!!!!

Anonymous said...

Ben do you smoke your own brand like willie? Guess voters got tired of your BULL SHIT what you say?

rita