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“We had $1.15 million as what the property would cost. They would not agree to that amount,” Alan Steele with the engineer’s office told the Journal-News. “It comes to they were using a comp (comparison) for the Thorntons, that have like 12 or 13, 14 pumps and big convenience store. We were using a four-pump, self serve with a small convenience store as a comp. So that’s where naturally we weren’t coming up with the same numbers.”
The negotiation went to arbitration and a judge decided the county must pay an additional $400,000, which the commissioners approved this week.
The county needs to take out that building so they can build a road to the service road in the back where business entrances will be relocated.
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