The site selection for the NEW MARSHALL was MADE I
believe before making any bore holes. I think the only one that was made before
shelling out 1 + million dollars was made after the selection and before the
purchase. Of course it came up good but you think somebody would have demanded
more before we plunked the city’s hardworking citizen’s money down. We let it
ride but we got railed. Or should I say taken for a ride across the tracks. I
know they were under no obligation to let us on the property to do our due
diligence but we were under no obligation to buy.
Except accepting the plan put us under a little pressure
to purchase this specific plot. Truth bedamned
Oil was discovered on the newly acquired land and
apparently we got the mineral rights free. Not only did we get tens of thousand
gallons of oil that we had to get rid of, we geet to pay to have the tank
cleaned. How could someone not known at least the tank was there? Was it buried
there and filled i in the middle of the night? There must have been a permit
pulled sometime. Didn’t someone do a records search? All of this came to light
after the site selection was chosen.
The land that was bought for over a MILLION dollars with
only one bore hold could now potentially cost us 6.4 million and the price on the
two adjacent as of yet purchased will now rise axitomically. All of this is occurring
post site selection.
Did the MSBA express their reservations about the proximity
of the railroad tracks prior to the site selection. I honestly don’t know but I
did see where they put those concerns on their website.
So much for our
experience and political connections on the building committee.
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