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ST. LUCIE WEST • TRADITION
YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 2/ISSUE 35
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Bid made to purchase vacant Tradition Studios
FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2014
Welcome to the new age
Brandon Zeris Staff writer
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TRADITION — A development firm representing Keiser University has placed a bid to purchase the former Digital Domain space in hopes of taking the costly center off the city’s hands after being vacant for the past two years. The school’s chancellor, Arthur Keiser, said the plan is to move the existing Port St. Lucie campuses — its main campus along U.S. 1 and its College of Golf and Sports Management in St. Lucie West — into the vacant 115,000-square-foot facility. “There’s a wonderful community presence there, and the building is nice,” Keiser said. “We think it will be good for us.”
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer Elvis Pera, music instructor at Petrova Jones Music, puts down the beat for Rock Band singers Ella Gershkovich and Tori Famularo of St. Lucie West performing ‘Radioactive’ during a benefit for Mayor Joann Faiella at the Sons of Italy Saturday, June 28.
Foreclosure rates lower this year Brandon Zeris Staff writer
bzeris@YourVoiceWeekly.com
ST. LUCIE COUNTY — Foreclosure rates have drastically decreased in the past year, and the backload of foreclosed homes
has reduced with more properties being sold at auction. As of June 27, there were 784 new foreclosures recorded, but, at this time last year, there were 1,309 filed. County Clerk Joseph Smith said one of the primary reasons is a state law passed year that inadvertently made it more
difficult for banks to move quickly through the foreclosure process. The law, that went into effect in July, was supposed to make the process easier and dubbed by many as the “fast foreclosure” law. It appeared that the law would make it harder for distressed owners to reclaim their
properties, but Smith said new requirements for banks to provide additional documentation made the process harder to foreclose on properties. A requirement for cases to be manually reviewed, rather than
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