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SPECIAL REPORT: Northwest Gateway Project
The most extensive development project in Lancaster’s history is converting a 77-acre industrial site into a multi-purpose complex focusing on higher education.
Lancaster New Era
May 07, 2009 11:59 EST
Harrisburg Ave
By JACK BRUBAKER, Staff Writer

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First up: Nursing and Allied Health School Campus and Research Building.

Will Lancaster General Health pay taxes on these?
skeptic2
They also sound like they are counting on the Clipper Stadium to still be viable in 5 more years. Why don't they go into the stadium some nights the team is home playing. They annouce PAID attendance not actual attendance at the games. The difference in those numbers is way off sometimes. The novelty of having a baseball team in Lancaster is wearing off, it is just taking a little longer than I thought. And then what will happen?
It is a shame that we will foot the bill for all of this somewhere or somehow down the road. Again public money for the private sector. "$32 million from state and federal sources", how about kicking alittle of that my way since in a round about way it is mine, I paid my taxes.
sodaman24
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"We can't meet the demand we currently have for individuals who want to enter nursing and other allied health programs," explains Lancaster General spokesman John Lines. "We need more space."


Funny thing about that - LGH claims to be overflowing with nursing students, but they aren't actually hiring any nurses.

Having spent a good part of the last month at LGH, much of it around nursing students who have to work in the hospital (on their own dime) as part of their training, I highly doubt that the hospital's hopes should be so high.

They aren't hiring, and nobody else is either. The last student nurse working my Dad's floor was elated that she found a minimum-wage job at Good Sam upon graduating next week, and the rest are looking for work at restaurants.

Get a loan to study nursing now and you'll still be paying it off working at Turkey Hill when you're 80.
citydweller
QUOTE (sodaman24 @ May 7 2009, 10:38 PM)
They also sound like they are counting on the Clipper Stadium to still be viable in 5 more years. Why don't they go into the stadium some nights the team is home playing. They annouce PAID attendance not actual attendance at the games. The difference in those numbers is way off sometimes.
Isn't paid attendance what counts? I mean, if you're worried about taxpayers picking up the difference... who cares if people buy tickets and choose not to show up, as long as they keep paying, right?
Don't count the stadium down yet. A few losing years and the worst recession of our lifetime are bound to affect attendance. The weather is still cool, and school's in session. I don't think we've really seen what this season is going to be like, yet.
People have been declaring the stadium dead since it opened. It stubbornly continues to provide a fun night's entertainment for thousands of residents.
greidel
QUOTE (Salva Veritate @ May 7 2009, 02:41 PM)
Good thing I am not a city resident. The hotel debacle and now this. However, if the hotel fails, being a Lancaster County resident, I will have to pay. Oh, look out York County, here we come!!


Load up your wagon and go. Soon.
jethrob
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