Please no more taxes - you can't get blood from a turnip.
And no casinos. If you think you pay a lot in taxes now to cover the budgets of your local law enforcement, just wait...
Back to the subject of the buildings & property...
Wasn't that prison originally a state school? And wasn't the state school a working farm?
My parents managed a town's "poor farm" in Maine and we lived at the facility from the time I was 2 years old until I was 14. My father had a goal of making the facility self-sufficient by farming the land that the facility was on and using the produce to feed the patients (there were about 26-30 patients, and about 10+ staff members.) There was also livestock there but the focus was more on farming. Extra produce was sold to the local grocery stores, at a roadside stand and other venues. The revenue was returned to the town. His plan worked well and the facility became a revenue maker - not a bottomless pit.
Rather than another resort in the area, we need more working farms. The farm land could be used for recreational things (i.e. snowshoeing, cross country skiing, etc.) in the winter - but that's excellent land and should be made of good use. You can't tell me that some sort of corrections facility/agricultural center couldn't be placed there?
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