All of this is correct, Ndavies, but isn't their default best move staying put and letting the property appreciate? Seems inappropriate to bail on unrealized value, and seems doubly inappropriate to go building new somewhere [[and pulling up roots from downtown in so doing). Obviously it's worth asking someone like DG to buy at an overmarket breakeven point, and that's nice if they can get it, but short of that they are stuck.

The county's budget issues are incredibly structural and I dislike that it's HQ building is being overplayed as some sort of golden bullet for solving it.

Now the jail site, that's another story...