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Experience featured on PL

From Pennlive: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/06/the_turkey_hill_experience_tel.html

From Centre Daily Times: http://www.centredaily.com/2011/06/01/2749061/mid-atlantic-regions-newest-visitor.html

Found this on a google search: http://www.howipinchapenny.com/2011/05/turkey-hill-experience-part-1/

Turkey Hill Experience from the outside

It was quiet at the Turkey Hill Experience this morning. The tourist attraction will open next Saturday.

It opens next week

This from PennLive.com: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/05/the_turkey_hill_experience_set.html

From Lancasteronline.com: http://lancasteronline.com/article/local/396548_VIDEO--Sneak-peek-at-Turkey-Hill-Experience.html

Turkey Hill Experience

THE job fair

The Turkey Hill Experience will hold a job fair next week: http://www.turkeyhill.com/careers/current-openings.aspx

It's getting closer

The Turkey Hill Experience is a short ways from opening: http://www.wgal.com/slideshow/news/27358971/detail.html

Back in the day

 Received this from a reader. Pictured are the two silk mills on North Thurd Street before demolition began - the upper part was torn down and Burger King built a facility there. In the second location will be the new Turkey Hill Experience.

The start of the demolition. Notice the three water towers - one for each silk mill, and one for Keeley Stove Company. The water tower on the far left has been repainted and will be re-signed for the Turkey Hill Experience.

Saw this in the York Daily Record

http://www.ydr.com/business/ci_17167810

Turkey Hill Experience gets exposure

The Turkey Hill Experience was topic of a story in today's Harrisburg paper: http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/01/turkey_hill_dairy_to_expand_th.html

Turkey Hill has website for Experience

Turkey Hill has developed a website for the Turkey Hill Experience: http://turkeyhillexperience.com/default.asp

THE groundbreaking is Wednesday

There will be a groundbreaking at 10 a.m., Wednesday, July 28 for the Turkey Hill Experience at Third and Linden streets.

Some movement at the THE

Here are some pictures taken this morning at the Turkey Hill Experience site at Third and Linden streets. Part of the standing building has been changed and there are avery people working on the site.

Looks like Experience is ready to roll

Last week, Columbia Borough settled and fianlly sold the property they owned for decades at Third and Linden streets. It will become the Turkey Hill Experience. Since the settlement, a trailer has been placed on the site and it looks like there will be some construction started in the near future.

Here comes the Experience!

Fianlly after decades of trying to sell the property and numerous delays in the settlement process, Columbia Borough has finally unloaded the Third and Linden street property. This morning at an attorney's office in Lancaster, all parties involved -- the borough, Columbia Economic Development Corporation, Musuem Partners and Susquehanna Bank signed off on the settlement. Next up, construction of the Turkey Hill Experience, a project that is long overdue.

The state needs to get moving

It sits there idle. It’s been cleaned up and somewhere down the road, the idle property owned by Columbia Borough at Third and Linden streets is expected to become the Turkey Hill Experience.

The inter-active museum, designed something like Hershey’s Chocolate World and a multi-million dollar project for those involved was suppose to open sometime this year, perhaps as early as spring.

Well, as you can see when you drive past it, there is no Turkey Hill Experience, just a neatly cleaned up plot of land with a shell of a building.

So what gives?

At Wednesday’s special meeting of Columbia Borough Council, it was explained that all of the T’s have been crossed and I’s dotted on the borough’s end, that of its broker for the sale, the Columbia Economic Development Corporation, Turkey Hill and Museum Partners, who will purchase the site and develop it.

So, who hasn’t dotted its I’s and crossed its T’s? Apparently the state of Pennsylvania.

At the meeting, council approved extending its deadline with CEDC and Museum Partners until at least, if not before, April 30, to complete the deal. The property was suppose to be settled by the end of the month.

The state or at least the Department of Environmental Protection’s approval is needed because of some soil contamination at the site.

“It is the same problem we have been dealing with since last July,” said Council President Mary Wickenheiser.

The borough has been told the project should get its needed DEP approvals, but, state budget cutbacks at the DEP office, have delayed the approval process.

The approval process is expected to take at least another four weeks, Wickenheiser said.

“We are very frustrated about it,” she said.

“Columbia Borough wants to settle this and sell this property. The developer wants this and Turkey Hill is very anxious because they need to purchase the equipment that goes into the facility,” said Mayor Leo Lutz.

“They are all under the gun and pushing Columbia Borough to entice the state to sign the documents. There is no dragging the feet on this because everyone involved in the process wants to get this done,” Lutz said.