Also, Kevin, regarding the few NIMBY's that were complaining about the Palmer site, it would have been way cheaper to pay them twice what their houses were worth, and bulldozed them, rather  than building that gigantic, overpriced, inaccessible monstrosity in Goose Creek.

Do you think that Bill Allen's and Bill Weimar's planned for-profit building partners, Jerry Neeser and Mark Pfeffer, wound up building Goose Creek by accident? Do you think that Snowflake Snookie paying all that dough to her friends who owned property out there was legitimate? 

A federal Bureau of Prisons head once said, "You can't build your way out of prison overcrowding."  It's been repeated, internationally, for many decades.

So why in the world did Schmidt and Palin take that dead end route?
A.) Stupidity
B.) Corruption
C.) Nimbyism
D.) All of the above