Recent interest in buying the undeveloped lot at Third and Main is understandable. It’s arguably our sweetest piece of dirt downtown, overlooking open fields and the Chilkat Range and located at a busy intersection next to the town’s newest buildings. For real-life Monopoly players, this might be seen as Boardwalk or Park Place – just sitting there empty – begging to be home to the next pizza parlor or used car lot.

But there’s a…