Heritage Square Owners File Motion to Reconsider, Again

We're closer but it seems like we're taking the journey in inches instead of miles.

— Town attorney G.W. Parker 

The owners of the condemned building at the corner of Highway 78 and Berlin G. Myers have asked the Circuit Court judge to reconsider an order that asks them to submit demolition plans within 30 days.

The judge only recently struck down a motion to reconsider. Heritage Square LLC submitted the follow-up motion this week. 

Heritage Square LLC is in a case against the Town of Summerville after the town ordered the unsound building demolished at the owners' expense. The case has taken years in court and the building has remained shuttered and unoccupied. 

Town of Summerville attorney G.W. Parker said the Circuit Court judge could stop the company's ability to continue to file motions to reconsider, and then the case would be moved to Appellate Court and finally the S.C. Supreme Court. 

"We're closer but it seems like we're taking the journey in inches instead of miles," Parker told Patch. "There will be a limit (to motions to reconsider) at some point." 

Parker said this isn't a property-rights issue, as the town is not dictating what goes at the location beyond what the law allows. According to Parker, it is illegal to have a structurally unsound building, even if left vacant.