An vacant eyesore is back — with weeds, a boat trailer and chain link

After Jim Keil Chevrolet closed its doors in Brunswick Basin four years ago, the two-acre lot at Brunswick Road and Sutton Way sat vacant for years. Tall weeds marked the spot, making it an eyesore.

Now a new but vacant Walgreens drug store sits on the spot. The project has been stalled, and liens have been filed against the Sacramento developer, as previously reported.

The weeds are back — big blooms of them growing on both sides of the chain-link construction fence. In addition, a boat trailer is being stored on the vacant lot, I noticed on Wednesday.

The road hasn’t been widened either, as promised.

By contrast, the building project across the street — by Grass Valley developer Reg King — has some landscaping planted and is being watered (see photo below).

The two projects are a construction version of a “tale of two cities.”

New voice in local blogosphere provides favorite links

Grass Valley lawyer Barry Pruett, who lost the race for clerk recorder against incumbent Greg Diaz, has provided a list of “my links” on his new blog titled “Inside Nevada County Politics.” You supposedly can’t judge a book by its cover. We’ll see how that applies to a list of links for a blogger.

The list:

The Union
KNCO Radio
Rebane’s Ruminations
NC Media Watch
Nevada County Tea Party Patriots
Nevada County Republican Women Federated
Nevada County Republican Party
CABPRO Report
Aaron Klein

Trust Me

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Mark Fiore has a cartoon on the BP oil disaster and the wonders of voluntary regulation, including a look at gold mining, food safety and banking, called “trust me”:

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