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An Associated Press story.
 
Bernie Wagenblast
 
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Landlord Threatens To Evict Amtrak, Greyhound
 
(CBS/AP) NEW LONDON,  Conn. The owner of the building that houses the Amtrak 
train station  and the Greyhound bus terminal is threatening to evict his high 
profile tenants.  

Union Station co-owner Todd O'Donnell said he would shut down the train  and 
bus service operations unless something is done to address his financial  
problems. 

O'Donnell told a political forum Sunday that unless his  financial picture 
improves, he will give Amtrak and Greyhound a 90-day notice on  Labor Day that 
they are being evicted. The two transportation tenants are  operating on a 
month-to-month arrangement. 

O'Donnell and Barbara Timken  bought the station in June 2002 and made 
extensive renovations, hoping to fill  up additional space in the station with 
office and retail tenants, but that has  not happened. 

"We did not ask for any grants or tax breaks," O'Donnell  said. "Perhaps we 
were simplistic. What we wanted to do wouldn't work."  

O'Donnell said a shortage of parking at the station, plus the constant  
activity as buses and taxis pull up and depart, make the building unattractive  to 
the office tenants they had hoped to attract. 

The facility has about  27,000 square feet of space, but his tenants use only 
about 4,700 of it,  O'Donnell said. 


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