Post by Logan on Feb 2, 2017 17:02:54 GMT -6
In the summer of 2013, Tom and Cindy Royer bought two lots with frontage on one of central Pennsylvania’s premier golf courses, owned by the super-rich Milton Hershey School.
The family wanted to live on a golf course, Tom Royer says. And its 7,900-square-foot dream home on the Hershey Links course would come with a doored-off children's study, detached three-car garage, and a large home office.
The Royers didn’t know it then, but the Hershey School for poor children had other plans that would lower their home's value dramatically: It would close the Hershey Links course and rezone it for student housing.
Today, Royer looks out his back porch not on grassy fairways and rolling hills, but into a bleak construction site bordered by a permanent 5-foot-high earthen wall of pine trees and shrubs.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/business/12B-Hershey-Trust-new-student-campus-polarizes-small-Pa-town.html
The family wanted to live on a golf course, Tom Royer says. And its 7,900-square-foot dream home on the Hershey Links course would come with a doored-off children's study, detached three-car garage, and a large home office.
The Royers didn’t know it then, but the Hershey School for poor children had other plans that would lower their home's value dramatically: It would close the Hershey Links course and rezone it for student housing.
Today, Royer looks out his back porch not on grassy fairways and rolling hills, but into a bleak construction site bordered by a permanent 5-foot-high earthen wall of pine trees and shrubs.
Read more: www.philly.com/philly/business/12B-Hershey-Trust-new-student-campus-polarizes-small-Pa-town.html