From the perspective of a city planner, locating the Lancaster County Prison at the Kreider Farm site gives me tremendous pause and brings images of opportunities lost.
The 78-acre site is located next to Greenwood Cemetery just south of Lancaster city on a peninsula surrounded by the Conestoga River on three sides.
The Conestoga River is perhaps the greatest environmental and economic asset of the Lancaster metropolitan region, envisioned the right way. Not recognizing this value comes at our peril. The long-term success of the region depends upon using our land resources in ways that are both strategic and inspirational, in ways that incentivize people to both stay here over time and come here anew, by choice.