Oh, Kate, that's rather simple - let us sell it to the highest bidder, without warning the bidders that the city won't like their plan, or will oppose any zoning change, or will only negotiate in secret to screw the owners out of their due. Simple enough?

We could have sold for $10 Million ten years ago, but the city wasn't in on it. Now we're preparing to sell at ONE THIRD of that because the city IS in on it. Anyone doing the math here?

This isn't, like, difficult or anything, unless you really believe in honest government.

Now gimme my damned vote back!

It has been falling down piece by piece for the past 10 years. Now they found West Nile Virus on the site TWICE. The best thing to do, would be to push everything that's left there into a large pile and do a controlled burn. Ashes are a lot lighter to clean up than rotton lumber, and the bugs and rats will be dead. Now I'm going to get PETA pissed off.
P=People
E=Eating
T=Tasty
A=Animals

Citydweller: I don't blame the owners for worrying. Especially since the Supreme Court upheld the eminent domain case; it makes all valuable property owners sitting ducks. It seems to me that the heel dragging for all these years, combined with the SCOTUS ruling, will bolster a near future land grab.

It just kills me that people who own land can't sell it to who they want to. Almost like the Lancaster City Government runs a giant co-op dwelling... deciding who can and who can not purchase property. This is wrong wrong wrong in my humble private citizen property owning opinion.

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Why not gather up some of the previous comments from these stories and email them to Gray along with how many people have viewed these comments. Feel free to up the amount of people viewing since he doesn't read Talkback. Make sure you include your rant from the last story. That was my favorite.

Citizen if the PETA crack was for me I'm guessing you got it from a t-shirt. Glad to see you read something.

Interesting that the state and county have a policy of NOT disclosing specific locations where west nile is detected, so as not to cause an undue panic. Yet the city feels that they should bypass this policy only in the case of the stockyards. Nothing like a little public hysteria to help you get away with robbery.

Several days before demolition began, Why? and I walked the entire stockyards site, beginning at the rail line and working our way across to Marshall avenue, end to end, down every alley and in every building. Couldn't find a single rat, or even a mouse, alive or dead. Being as there's not a scrap of food for them to eat, it made perfect sense to us, but still the wild "hordes of rats" myth persist with some help from $chitty hall.

I would love to be able to place some of you in our seats and see how you feel about getting reamed by the city for some 20 years. Come to think of it, you actually are sharing our seats now. After all, the money taken from our pockets is being given back to the developer through a state grant. Gosh, isn't that your tax dollars???

Welcome to the fleecing, fellow sheep.