[Tenniel2]

There's an even bigger lie in the story: "... a municipal building where the Scouts have resided practically rent free since 1928."

As others have pointed out, the building belongs to the Scouts, who built it in 1928 at their own expense. Despite the dollar-a-year ground rent, the BSA has maintained the Beaux Arts (which, incidentally, is a legitimate architectural-historical landmark) for the last 80 years. And it was the Scouts, not the city, who undertook and paid for its $2.7 million renovation in the late '90s.

The conduct of the Philly city council, and of its proudly out-of-the-closet ringleader, is beneath despicable.

[sauropod]

The conduct of the Philly city council, and of its proudly out-of-the-closet ringleader, is beneath despicable.

So I have heard.