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Superior Court fines Wilt $18,500

December 18, 2009 Business, FPposts, Superior Az 1 Comment
Superior Court fines Wilt $18,500
Another of Wilt's properties in Globe.

Another of Wilt's properties in Superior

Thursday afternoon, Dr. Glen Wilt again faced Judge Bravo in the Superior Court for sentencing on 8 counts and 11 citations involving his properties in Superior. He was found guilty in absentia two weeks ago when he failed to show up for his court date where the citations were reviewed.  His failure to appear for his own court date was due to a simple mistake he explained in today’s courtroom. He had thought the court date was for 5 pm… not 2 pm. Then, he added, when he started to leave (for Superior) he got sick and “couldn’t have made it anyway.”

As a college professor, one wonders what Wilt’s response would have been were a student to miss his midterm exam with the same ‘I -didn’t-know-what-time-the-test-started-and-then-I-got-sick-and-couldn’t-have-made-it-anyway’ excuse.

As the sentencing got underway, the Town’s case centered on the fact that the citations not only involved commercial buildings which according to Melanie Oliver, Superior’s Planning and Zoning administrator, are held to a higher standard and that of the 8 cases involved, six of them had been before the court for previous violations. … Continue Reading

Dr. Glen Wilt Found Negligent

December 12, 2009 FPposts, Globe Community, Superior Az 3 Comments
Dr. Glen Wilt Found Negligent
Wilt was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read, but I caught up with him as he exited Hill Street Mall in Globe. Another of his properties, the Hill Street School can be seen in the background.

Wilt was not in the courtroom when the verdict was read, but I caught up with him as he exited Hill Street Mall in Globe. Another of his properties, the Hill Street School can be seen in the background.

Dr. Glen Wilt, ASU professor of economics and real estate investor, was found negligent of his duties as a landlord in the tragic fire which destroyed the Pioneer Hotel and adjacent Globe Theater in the summer of 2005. The jury trial, which was held in Gila County Court took 6 days to present all the evidence and took a jury of ten just over 2 hours to send down a verdict. They found for the Plantiffs, Frank Balaam and his wife Nora, and awarded them $223,000 for the loss of nearly 1000 pieces of artwork stretching over 30 years. The artwork was being housed in his gallery space within the Pioneer Hotel at the time of the fire. The other three plantiffs  in the case had reached out of court settlements prior to yesterday’s verdict. They included the Hollis family (Globe Theater), Tony and Chris Brusca (Java Junction) and Amanda and Tim Haas (Animal Magnetism).

Wilt, who owns over 80 properties throughout Gila, Pinal, Maricopa and Yavapai counties, says he  just “likes old buildings” and while 40% of his holdings are residential (mostly in Tempe), the majority of his holdings include old buildings throughout Globe, Miami and Superior.

He purchased the historic 1916 hotel from Patrick Harris in December 0f 2003 for the sum of $210,000 and said he felt the Pioneer Hotel was his “jewel.” Despite this professed fondness for the building, court records show that he did little to secure the long range health of the building. He fixed a cornice which was threatening to fall on the sidewalk below, but when it came to water leaks which was an on-going problem in the building,  his solution was to put down large swaths of black plastic which ran down the stairways and along the hallways. As he said, “It is a method I learned when I was a sophomore in Michigan. The idea is that you let the water sit on top of the plastic until it evaporates.” … Continue Reading

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