We chose this site in the first place because vacant property next to the canal is very rare.

It's not even a cost issue. It just doesn't even look possible because of all the engineering obstacles.

HatchieCoon is an Arkansas corporation first. Secondly, HatchieCoon has owned it's property in the St. Francis floodway for over 100 years. It received a patent in 1892 to it's lands. So if a long time citizen over there and it's members have been hunting over there for as long, if not longer than anybody else. The fact that some of its members live in Tennessee and some live in Arkansas is un material.

Part of the reason they chose the site was that they thought it would be appropriate for the Ag Hall to be in the Heartland.

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Look at the vacant commercial property around town. We already have enough malls and mini-malls, and Keizer Station hasn't even begun to get going. These changes are counter to their own goals.