QUOTE(greidel @ Jul 17 2008, 04:50 PM)
Maybe they can include the Rocky Springs Carousel in the trolley station. I nominate the Carousel as dumb idea #3. They haven't even gotten that thing going yet, and they're on to trolleys.
Former Lancaster mayor Charlie Smithgall signed a binding contract that states the Rocky Springs Carousel
must be located on the east side of Lancaster Square. City officials are still trying to find ways around that one.
QUOTE(twinmom @ Jul 17 2008, 11:24 PM)
I think Artie told me a few months ago that he heard Charter was having financial issues with it?
It was announced at a City Council committee meeting some months ago that Charter did the environmental cleanup at that site, then applied for State grant money after the work was completed. It doesn't work that way: you have to apply for the grant first, only then can you perform the environmental cleanup.
Charter expected lots of help from the government to clean up and rebuild that site, but because of their not knowing how to play the system there isn't much available to them.