[trumandogz]

Again, no private organization, no matter their agenda, should get Free Land from the Tax Payer.

Not the Boy Scouts
Not the Girl Scouts

[SZonian]

So churches that qualify as tax exempt should be paying “fair market value” as well? The BSA provides a valuable service to the community, you could call it a barter system but you seem to be quite contrarian in your opinion of that.

SZ

[Jigajog]

How do you think most of the western US was settled? Free land.

[restornu]

Good should the Scouts leave they should blow up the building!

[wrench]

“Again, no private organization, no matter their agenda, should get Free Land from the Tax Payer.

Not the Boy Scouts
Not the Girl Scouts”

Nor the U.S. Military.

Fidel is closely watching so he can push us out of Gitmo. He only gets $10 a year.

[Tired of Taxes]

The article calls it a "city-owned building," but it may be wrong. No one answered my question, so I researched it:

Click here for source.

SNIP

According to property law, should the Boy Scouts ultimately be evicted, ownership of the land would revert back to the city of Philadelphia. But the Boy Scouts built the headquarters with its own funds, and the organization spends about $60,000 annually to maintain it, says Cradle of Liberty Council spokesperson Jeff Jubelirer. In 1994 the organization spent $2.6 million to refurbish the structure.

“I don’t know what the city’s legal rights are regarding the building itself and the land—that’s likely one of the issues that could be dealt with in a legal proceeding,” Jubelirer says.

/SNIP

They should tear down the building, if they can do so legally.

And there's a lesson here: Don't build private property on public land.