Assuming covid will not be our final pandemic, were you offered assistance when the city was shut down? 

I am interested in purchasing the property and I have mentioned it to him before and he has never shut the idea down, so I know he would be open to it...however, being a small business and talking with some people, I know I will not be approved to purchase this commercial property nor do I have the money to put as a down payment. 

I will spare you details like falling out of contract due to windows being inexplicably nailed shut, but for comedic relief I will highlight the pain culminating in complaints that there were random, free-roaming chickens pecking around our yard and putting off potential buyers due to a negligent neighbor.We ended up needing to take it up with the city to reign these fowls in, an action that caused the spiteful neighbor to tank a number of our other showings.The end result of all this was losing at least $30k (and probably more when it was all said and done), locking up the capital for ten months, and dealing with a two month long, stressful process of trying to sell and falling out of contract three times for various, silly reasons.

They nailed / screwed shut the beautiful French doors out to the backyard.

I do see many homes planned to be constructed but not much along the lines of restaurants, groceries, entertainment centers, home depot etc etc that make the area more livable.

There are lots of new restaurants, stores and industrial businesses in town.

If on top of this there are other destination points within walking distance such as starbucks, restaurants, bars, chains in particular that is usually a great sign.

I looked at Lawrence KS is was  fully valued ,finding a deal would be a long labor intensive project so I back out .One thing I did notice students will rent dumps it's all about location to the campus .My son rented a real dinger 6 years back  real close to campus  the basement was so trashed the owner just nailed it shut .

If the utility company isn't given the name of the new owners, they may shut off service.

The town manager will shut off the water at the street, then open my main water valve which drains back to street valve.