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Lephthands t1_ja3u5sy wrote

Local here. So fucking proud of everyone who worked so hard on this. It would have been an insult to Mrs. Douglas to have turned that beautiful land into condos and such.

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methpartysupplies t1_ja3ygza wrote

Maybe my reading comprehension is shit, but based on the article it sounds like the family already owned the land. They could have just designated it as a preserve… but it was appraised at 11 million bucks. So it was this families wish that this be designated as a preserve, but ya know, they also had the wish for millions of dollars. So great idea, let’s have Pulte group come in and hold a 14 million dollar gun to everyone’s heads, then we’ll shake down donors and the city for 10 million bucks.

Idk man, at the very least that family doesn’t deserve to have their name on it. If they donated it, sure, it’s your legacy. Otherwise it was just a real estate transaction so take your money and go.

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TheInvisibleJeevas t1_ja46qtw wrote

I was under the impression that it was Gladys’ wish to not develop the land. Maybe by “family” you mean the Douglass part of her name, but at least let it be Gladys’. I see a lot of myself in this woman.

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