After dropping Em at the high school to get ready for her Rep Theater performance, I went to check and see what this UFO hovering on the horizon over U.S. 56 was.
The BNSF intermodal facility Gardner was in a titter about a couple years back. If I recall, some NIMBY types managed to guarantee that Gardner would never receive a dime of tax revenue from the development, on the theory that if Gardner wouldn't annex the area, BNSF wouldn't build it there. BNSF didn't care one way or the other whether the area was annexed and if so by who, and I think Edgerton had the good sense to embrace the inevitable and not cut themselves out of the picture.
Gardner will still benefit from it, probably already is benefitting it: on a Saturday afternoon I could see cement trucks coming and going and a lot of pickups parked off in the distance, so even though they're not even taking sea crates off a train yet, I'm sure it's making for some very good jobs.
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