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'A unique property' How proposed prison site never got developed all these years


“They re like, ‘Oh, there’s a farm in there?’” Kreider said.
A proposal to build a new 1,200-bed county prison on the sprawling property, next to Greenwood Cemetery and just south of the city, is the latest attempt to develop this well-situated land where others, at least over the past 50 years, failed.
It remains an open question why builders never got to this land just a seven-minute drive from Penn Square and zoned for residential use. That the land is tucked away behind a cemetery, out of sight and out of mind, may have played a role. But interviews with Kreider, local officials and real estate professionals suggest a number of factors, including limited road access, the prohibitive cost of building infrastructure like sewers, the quality of the soil for large-scale construction and, at least for the past 15 years, a family reluctant to sell. ....

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Progress toward new Lancaster County prison is welcome news after a long wait [editorial]


THE ISSUE: “Lancaster County commissioners are hoping an undeveloped plot of land along the Conestoga River in Lancaster Township will be the location of a new county prison,” Carter Walker reported in the May 6 LNP | LancasterOnline. “Parts of Lancaster County’s current prison at 625 E. King St. date to the decade before the Civil War, with the most recent portions built in the 1990s. Building a new prison has been discussed by a succession of county leaders for nearly 20 years, and there is broad agreement among elected and appointed county officials about the need for a new one.”
Lancaster County has needed a new, modern prison for decades. So last week’s development must be welcome and gratifying for everyone who has worked to raise awareness of the deficiencies at Lancaster County Prison. ....

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