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Friday, August 23, 2013

SOMETHINGS TO THINK ABOUT

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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