On Dec. 16, 2009, local [Freeport] business owner Steve Chesney submitted a $1,000 bid to purchase the Carnegie, after the library board voted to put the building up for auction. That bid was 25 times larger than the amount submitted by the city[of Freeport] to buy the Carnegie. City Council members later authorized matching the $1,000 bid, but a formal purchase of the property has not happened.
The taxpayers for the city and the library district have spent $26,000, [on legal fees] and we still don’t have a definitive answer on who owns the building. Who are the legal trustees?,”
City of Freeport believes that the title lawsuit is no longer necessary. We believe that recent interest shown in the property indicates that there is no hindrance to achieving the ultimate goal of putting the property back into productive reuse, while preserving the historical nature of the building
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