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Receiver Mark Adams Shows How Receivership Abated Criminal Nuisance Conditions [Before and After] - YouTube
Channel: California Receivership Group
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Hi, I'm Mark Adams. I'm the president and
the founder of California Receivership Group
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and this video is part of a series that we're
doing to illustrate the underlying passion
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that has driven this organization over the
last twenty years as we revamp California
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neighborhoods one property at the time. A story I wanted to tell you today is about
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a San Joaquin Valley town, there was a retail
store. This store was really basically a liquor
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store, and it was mostly a drug den out in
the parking lot where I witnessed drug deals
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going down. Today the receiver showed up with
police to take over the property. Now police
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say that enforcement has been warning the
owners here for years now that they need to
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clean up the property, get rid of the illegal
activity that takes place right there in the
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parking lot, sometimes in the store, and to
get rid of the dangerous clientele. A judge
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ordered, he actually ruled on it earlier this
week, after several complaints from community
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members. Community members say they feared
they'd get caught in crossfire. In fact, a
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woman had been shot in that parking lot just
a month or two before I took over. So it was
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a real danger to the entire community. I'll
never forget, right after I was appointed
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and I drove up to this property from the south,
and as I pulled forward there was an Escalade
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in the parking lot and I literally saw a guy
roll down his window, reach out and hand something
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to a guy that was standing there and then
the other guy handed back to him. And I thought
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to myself that's how brazen this place is
that they're doing a drug deal right in plain
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sight. I couldn't believe it. So obviously
this neighborhood could really use the help
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that we provided. We took over the site, we
shut down the store immediately. We chased
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out the Escalade and all of the minions that
were part of that drug ring that was working
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in the parking lot there. The other thing
I remember when we first got there was that
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the owner had been renting to a kind of an
evangelical church, a little space in the
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back. Where they had their services, and on
a property that really had totally inadequate
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electricity, of course, the church had electric
guitars and band equipment and all of that
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stuff. And I thought this is one spark away
from a catastrophe for the people that are
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attending services at this church. So we worked
with the pastor and his team to find them
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another place downtown that was a lot safer
for them, and we moved them out as we closed
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down the property. And then eventually it's
been built out now as a Family Dollar Store.
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This store behind me used to be a dilapidated
rundown place and now it's turned into the
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Family Dollar. At one point the city took
over, and we got to look inside and we found
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a bucket with urine in it, some expired food,
just horrible conditions. But now it's turned
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around, it's the Family Dollar. It's a pretty
big deal for people in this community. Well
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it's a great change to the neighborhood to
be honest with you, we needed some kind of
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change to this place, we actually did. And
this is the best thing that could happen here.
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The bigger problem is that there are things
called food deserts in California and elsewhere.
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And that is where people, you know who are
least able to hop in a car and go drive to
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a fully stocked grocery store, have the need
for it but there's nothing in their neighborhoods
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to address that need. Well I got here early
because I wanted to be the first one to come
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in and use the store. Why are you excited
about it? Oh we haven't had a store here,
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a decent one, in years. Yeah and you live
right across the way, and you don't drive,
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so how inconvenient was it for you when you
needed to shop for something? Well, I had
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to depend on my kids and grandkids taking
me to shop. So now that it's here I can easily
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walk across the street if I need to. Yes so
you're excited about that and I think on top
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of that you said your niece is going to be
working here. Yes, my niece is going to be
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working here. Obviously, they'll still have
to go to another market for some of the other
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staples that they might need, but the point
is that it helps address the food desert issue
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in California and it's probably the most striking
example of us helping solve a whole neighborhood
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problem by the work that we do. So we're proud
of that project, and proud of the work that
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we do. And we've done over 220 properties
from Eureka to El Centro and to the Nevada
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border. And we've worked for over 120 different
judges in all of those cases. I look forward
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to sharing some other stories with you over
the next few videos. Thank you
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