Delaware

...are two different things.

I don't think they got a payout on the abandoned and boarded up structure, but I think it puts them in an different position relative to having to demolish and re-develop. They had wanted to put in a Trader Joe's a while back, but got shot down by the county since there are already grocery stores at either end of Linden Hill Road. (although whether Trader Joe's would be considered duplicative of the other two is an open question IMHO)

Same thing happened at the old Bancroft Mills site down along the Brandywine a few months ago.

I live around the corner from this former bowling alley, and the timing here was perfect. Honestly, if you wanted to make sure you burned as much of it as possible, you could not have picked a better time.

It's perched across a wide parking lot facing a Wawa on the other side of Pike Creek Boulevard. As you might imagine, it's kind of hard to pull of shenanigans across from a Wawa, which has people coming and going at all hours.

Additionally, Mill Creek Fire Company has a station literally right around the corner from this place. The fire station actually backs up to this property with some woods and a small flood plain between.

They managed, by doing this at precisely the lowest traffic time for Wawa - in the very wee hours of a very cold Sunday morning - to get this fire to obliterate the entire space and all fixtures in it.

Betcha they let it go for a "big Wawa".