{"id":15905,"date":"2012-07-30T17:12:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15905"},"modified":"2012-07-30T17:25:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T21:25:11","slug":"councilman-meets-with-complex-representative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=15905","title":{"rendered":"Councilman Meets With Complex Representative"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, Tampa City Councilman Frank Reddick<\/strong> met with a representative of Southport Financial Services, owners of Central Court Apartments.<\/p>\n

The meeting was held to discuss last Sunday\u2019s police shooting of 16-year-old Javon \u201cJJ\u201d Neal<\/strong>, and the overall condition of the 41-year-old complex.<\/p>\n

Peter Leach<\/strong>, who represents the ownership group, said he and his wife were at home watching the news when the report aired.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all devastated by this happening to one of our tenants. That\u2019s why I thought it would be important for me to meet with Councilman Reddick<\/strong> at the complex.<\/p>\n

\u201cCouncilman Reddick<\/strong> and I talked about putting a system in place to make sure this doesn\u2019t happen again. Right now, I\u2019m not a happy person.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leach<\/strong> said as far as the complex is concerned, their plans are to remodel the complex the same as they did Silver Oaks (formerly Johnson\/Kenneth court Apartments).<\/p>\n

\u201cIn January 2013 we hope to be able to convince the Council to make certain credits available to us so we can start remodeling the complex.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as security at the complex is concerned, we installed high-level security cameras, and we were happy with the results. That\u2019s why you no longer saw the actual foot patrols in the area. The cameras did capture what happened on the 22nd<\/sup>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leach<\/strong> said they\u2019ve applied to have a live-in manager at the complex through HUD.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne big issue we have are people that gather at the complex from the surrounding community. We feel if we can identify the residents, we can do a better job of protecting them and the complex.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as the young man\u2019s family is concerned, I haven\u2019t met with them yet, but I do plan to at least speak to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councilman Reddick<\/strong> said one thing he feels really good about was Leach\u2019s <\/strong>request to find a piece of land close to the complex.<\/p>\n

\u201cLeach<\/strong> said if I could locate at least an acre of land close to the complex, they would build a park.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m talking with our real estate people to see what we have or what we can do. I think Leach<\/strong> and his partners are committed to changing things at the complex.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neal\u2019s<\/strong> mother, Ms. Kethessa Fordoms<\/strong>, said she had not spoken with Leach <\/strong>at press time.<\/p>\n

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On Friday, Tampa City Councilman Frank Reddick met with a representative of Southport Financial Services, owners of Central Court Apartments. The meeting was held to discuss last Sunday\u2019s police shooting of 16-year-old Javon \u201cJJ\u201d Neal, and the overall condition of the 41-year-old complex. Peter Leach, who represents the ownership group, said he and his wife […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}