What a waste of taxpayer money, certainly there must be a better use for this money than depriving this man of his property and livelihood. His donation box sounds hilarious!
Donation box or not, Flight 93 Memorial is wrong
BY J.H. HUEBERT
Controversy rages in Somerset County as a local property owner, Mike Svonavec, refuses to sell his land to organizers of a forthcoming federal memorial to the victims of Flight 93, a hijacked airliner that crashed there on Sept. 11, 2001.
Congress has authorized up to $10 million to purchase land for the memorial. On top of that, the National Park Service will be responsible for building the project once the land is acquired. The total price tag? At least $58 million.
Svonavec insists that his land is worth $50 million, but he would be willing to part with it for $10 million. That would put the project well over its land budget limit, since it has already paid for adjoining parcels from other owners and has a lot more left to buy.
Thus the parties are locked in a standoff.
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