I-Team: Monroe Cotton Mill
The State Fire Marshal is vowing to investigate how a huge antique mall in Monroe was allowed to open and operate for years without the written state fire marshal inspections required by law. Some say preferential treatment for a politically-connected owner is the reason. It's a charge the owner denies. Senior FOX 5 I-Team reporter Dale Russell has the exclusive report.
Walk into the historic Monroe Cotton Mills and you will find anything and everything an antique hunter would treasure. But, it's harder to find an answer to this question: how did this mall open and operate for five years without the required government approval?
Attorney Paul Rosenthal bought the building in 2008 with plans to turn it into an antique mall. Georgia's Fire Protection and Safety laws say a business can't open until a fire inspector deems it safe for the public and gives the owner a certificate of occupancy. That didn't happen here. Rosenthal admits he had no C.O., but insists the building was safe and that the state fire inspector gave him a verbal go ahead to let the public in.
He says around 2012 a new state fire inspector showed up and told him what fire safety issues needed to be fixed. When we asked the state for the records, they told us there were none.
It's a different story for Ian Henderson who runs a competing antique mall down the street. In 2012, this same fire inspector rigorously inspected Ian's property issuing six different reports over a 3-month period requiring the owner to add two exit doors, build a ramp for wheelchairs and add handrails before letting him open to the public.
Henderson told us, I feel maybe he's being held to a different standard in Monroe, because of his powerful positions. He says the fact that Paul Rosenthal is the city attorney for Monroe got him special treatment. But State Fire Marshal Dwayne Garriss says that's not the case. We don't treat anybody differently. Doesn't matter who you are. Fire has no discrimination at all.
Garriss says his area fire inspector claims he didn't know the Monroe Cotton Mills had an antique mall until 2014 when he stumbled onto it while shopping. So five years after the mall opened, the state started inspecting and started finding safety deficiencies including electrical circuits over loaded, no required Fire alarm System. The inspector ordered the owner to add 2 new exits and required a fire watch until the fire alarm is installed.
Paul Rosenthal fixed all the problems cited in the inspection report. Shortly before our story aired and five years after opening, he finally got his state certificate saying he could operate.
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My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
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