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Whiskero 
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Posted on: Apr. 17 2006,10:00 am |
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I sure hope that A.Lea has not sold their soul to the devil. The entire LaFavre family has been known for their wheeling and dealing for many many years, to no good. They have taken businesses and employees to the cleaners and it just keeps getting worse. Ask anyone that has ever had anything to do with them and they will tell you. I Hope that A.Lea Country Club has all its P's and Q's dotted very thoroughly for all our sakes.
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The Game
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Posted on: Apr. 17 2006,10:06 am |
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Once the construction stops maybe Quincy Borland will have his moto-cross/race track afterall.
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Replicant
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Posted on: Apr. 17 2006,10:16 am |
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| Quote (Alfy Packer @ April 17 2006,8:27am) | | The name rings a bell from the past. Wasn't there an older LaFaver of some reputation in the community? Any one know if this is the same family? |
Definitely don't want to blame anyone for their father's alleged sins. But for the sake of background, his father was/is Jerry LaFavre who in the mid-70s (1976-77 give or take a year) was accused of (and acquitted or never charged with) some financial mis-dealings. Seems like there was some real estate involved with the whole mess. The scandal resulted in a county judge being forced to resign from the bench due to allegations of complicity. Don't remember the details on that. But it was quite the scandal at the time.
On a totally different note, this was my 1,000th post since joining this forum about a year and a half ago. Hope I've contributed something worthwhile occasionally. 
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Alfy Packer
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Posted on: Apr. 17 2006,12:03 pm |
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That was it! Insurance fraud and the judge was implicated, took the fall which ended in his disbarment. Others were known to be involved but the trail ended with the judge. Thanks Replicant, I was trying to bring it up but the old memory isn't what it use to be.
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gonefishn
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Posted on: Apr. 17 2006,1:45 pm |
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who would be able to live at the "eagles nest"?
is anybody that lives and works in Albert Lea going to be able to afford this?
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leftALintime
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Posted on: Apr. 17 2006,1:54 pm |
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The question isn't who would be able to live at the "Eagles Nest" but: WHO WOULD WANT TO LIVE AT THE TOXIC WASTE DUMP!!!
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spike
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Posted on: Apr. 17 2006,8:43 pm |
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| Quote (ICU812 @ April 17 2006,7:48am) | | Quote | | Albert Lea now has 400 residential units going up in residential subdivisions. (A single-family house is one residential unit; a 12-apartment condominium is 12 units.) Simonsen said some people have concerns about how saturated the Albert Lea housing market is. |
Drove past Tiger Hills yesterday, I don't know who is building the house but there is one that was built about 5 feet from a creek, that thing is saturated.
| Quote | | Further, a recent housing study did not mention a need for high-end housing. |
It didn't? Looks to me like it did. |
Am I reading this correctly, they are prediciting AL to need 250-270 single family homes over the next 10 years? That seems pretty low, and sad.
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FlyguyAL
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Posted on: Apr. 17 2006,9:11 pm |
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The possibility of having one golf course in town is sad. 
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Alfy Packer
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Posted on: Apr. 18 2006,6:33 am |
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It just doesn't add up to me today, but I am not much of a futurist. A friend of mine said that he has a vision that the project will begin but will prove to be an unsound investment. In the end the community will be left with another problem to solve and one less golf course in the process. I hope not but Mr. LaFavre vision for the area is beyond the scope of my gullibility. I guess time will tell if Albert Lea gets "Eagles Rest" or "Son of Flimflam Man."
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TameThaTane
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Posted on: Apr. 18 2006,8:01 am |
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He's got growthitis....I've seen if before. Usually from Rochester or Minneapolis. These guys get so used to incredible growth that when they see "diamonds in the Rough" like a "gold course" that could be developed with high end houses, that they can't resist.
It almost always fails and not before sucking many tax dollars out of the community to pay for the investors risk. Perhaps in 20-30 years the spill over from Rochester could fill it, but not yet.
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