Auction is still stalled

HellerCarbonCapNTradeCo wrote:

And, of course, not a peep from the Great Barrington Selectboard over a willingness to consider buying the 56-acre parcel for use by the town and for the benefit of future generations of Great Barrington's children.
Residents of GB will longingly look back to this period, when the entire 56-acre Fairgrounds could have been acquired, bought, and paid for by the Town for 1/4 the cost of its brand new firehouse.
Is anyone doing any thinking in that Town Hall?

pat the painter wrote:

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Do you really believe the town of GB could even operate such a facility? They can not run a police department, handle simple real estate transactions and have been on the wrong end of lawsuits. GB screwed up free tree maintenance on Main Street.

Peppy wrote:

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Seriously, are they that bad that they could screw up a public park? That is really sad, but I keep reading about their incompetence, so I guess there must be some truth to it.

HellerCarbonCapNTradeCo wrote:

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Just because there have been some inept morons running town government should not be an excuse to stop the town from acquiring a valuable and necessary resource the value of which will be more apparent as the years go by.
Part of that value can be realized immediately if the Town buys the land, and then just cuts the grass.
That would create open space for public use.
The town wouldn't even need to cut that grass.
One creative poster on these threads had the excellent suggestion to allow residents to plant victory garden plots.
But if the town doesn't buy the land, none of these good ideas can bear fruit.

HellerCarbonCapNTradeCo wrote:

And, of course, not a peep from the Great Barrington Selectboard over a willingness to consider buying the 56-acre parcel for use by the town and for the benefit of future generations of Great Barrington's children.
Residents of GB will longingly look back to this period, when the entire 56-acre Fairgrounds could have been acquired, bought, and paid for by the Town for 1/4 the cost of its brand new firehouse.
Is anyone doing any thinking in that Town Hall?