If you had asked Jim Blanton if he and his partner Daniel Radtke were going to buy 24-32 Front Street in Port Jervis three months ago, he wouldn’t have given a definitive answer.
Major and immediate work needed to be done on the building’s roof, part of which had caved in, and clearing the title to be able to start the work was what the mayor described as an “uphill battle.” When asked about the cost of the renovations, Radtke described it as a “black hole.”
Not much has changed in three months—the roof still needs to be repaired and the title has yet to be cleared—but now the two are committed to buying the building, and they already have plans for what they’re going to do with it once it’s theirs.
“Pending clearing the transfer of the title, it’s a done deal,” Blanton said in a Jan. 22 phone interview.
