'Oh, this is not good for the neighborhood': Texas city sells 87 acres gifted by local farmer to data center…
- Donated Texas parkland is now becoming a multimillion-dollar industrial data center project
- Residents fear the constant industrial noise beside homes built near the former recreational farmland
- Texas officials expect millions in future tax revenue from disputed development agreement
Nearly three decades after a Texas farmer donated 87 acres of land for community recreation, residents are protesting plans for the site to instead be turned into a sprawling commercial data center development.
The disputed land sits in Taylor, Texas, where longtime residents remember generations of children using the open fields for sports, camping, and gatherings.
According to archived deed records from July 1999, local farmer Mr. Bland transferred the property for just $10 through a public trust arrangement.
Residents confront massive data center proposal
Pamela Griffin, whose family lived beside the property for decades, recalled Bland telling her father, “I see the kids don’t really have nowhere to play.”
She also...
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