Ben Lanka


  • Ben Lanka has been a local government reporter at The Journal Gazette since 2004 and has covered city government exclusively since April 2006. He received his education at the University of Dayton and Northwestern University. Ben has attended dozens of meetings related to the Harrison Square project and is the primary reporter on the subject for The Journal Gazette. Feel free to comment on the postings here that relate to all aspects of the $125 million public-private proposal.

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May 09, 2008

Abatement filings

In case anyone has an interest in reading the actual tax abatement filings for the Harrison Square condominiums or hotel project, I have provided them in pdf format. Click the links below.

Hotel abatement

Download hotel_tax_abatement.pdf

Condominium/retail abatement

Download harrison_tax_abatement.pdf

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Condo numbers game

The actual number of condominiums sold from The Harrison project seems to depend on who you ask. Greg Leatherman previously told me it was nine, but Jim Irwin, project manager with Barry Real Estate, recently told another news outlet it was only four or five.

Leatherman cleared up the discrepancy with an apology, saying he was told the wrong number. As of Friday, five people have completed deals to buy a condominium. He said there are more than nine people in the pipeline to buy the units as soon as some engineering work is done, but it wasn’t accurate to classify them as closed deals. Leatherman said he expected the number of sold condominiums to be closer to 20 in a few weeks.

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