Greater Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) - An Action News update on a story we brought you Wednesday.
More than 20 businesses in the NYPenn Trade Center in Johnson City could soon be forced to move out because of serious code violations.
As Action News reporter Natalie Jenereski uncovered, that building isn't the only problem property belonging to the Southside Storage owner.
Wilson Rigdon III is the owner of Southside Storage.
Rigdon also owns four other limited liability corporations, three of which have recently filed for bankruptcy.
Action News sat down with the director of Broome County's Real Property Tax Services.
He told us that over the last few years, Rigdon bought 60 parcels in Broome County.
They range from rental spaces like the NYPenn building in Johnson City, to a 3-story home on Nanticoke Avenue in Endicott.
In 2007, he entered into payment agreements for back taxes owed on many of those properties.
"It's not unusual to have multiple properties in an agreement, it is a little unusual to have one person, or this many entities under one person that would get under one person that would get into an agreement. I mean, 60 is a large number. I don't think we've ever had anything near that before," said Kevin Keogh, director of Real Property Tax Services in Broome County.
Action News got in touch with some of the people who sold their properties to Rigdon.
Most of whom are extremely frustrated with his failure to pay, or show up in court.
At the live desk, Natalie Jenereski, WBNG-TV Action News.
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