Perhaps an important example of political persons of advanced years with old ideas, coming up with nostalgic ways to put forward not so advanced, and not so working, old ideas.  Completely unaccountable to anyone who is registered to vote (16.5% voted the last Springfield election).   I simply wonder... who comes up with this stuff?  Someone described the Booth Kelly Mill and the mess they have made (out of what should be partly developed and partly beautiful & unpolluted park land) as "an iconic" place.  Even if they painted it dayglow green and yellow it would not make sense.  The news: The 40 years *gone* mill economy isn't coming back.  And it isn't coming back with Cross Laminated Technology (CLT), and further would not be coming back to Springfield in particular even if CLT gains wide acceptance. IE, in any other possibility, it would be taken out of anyone's hands here that is successful - simply because there is not enough money or investment here to defend it just being moved.