[The project languished in negotiation for more than a year until 2000, when the Palmer group decided not to take the lease. Another year of inactivity followed, with the project to save Harding seemingly dead.] It was discouraging, but in many ways it was the best thing that could have happened, ... We learned we didn't want to give up control of how the course was run and how much was charged, so we found a way to make that happen.
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