Hershey Trust's new student campus polarizes small Pennsylvania town
In the summer of 2013, Tom and Cindy Royer bought two lots with frontage on one of central Pennsylvania’s premier golf courses, owned by the super-rich Milton Hershey School.
The family wanted to live on a golf course, Tom Royer says. And its 7,900-square-foot dream home on the Hershey Links course would come with a doored-off children's study, detached three-car garage, and a large home office.
The Royers didn’t know it then, but the Hershey School for poor children had other plans that would lower their home's value dramatically: It would close the Hershey Links course and rezone it for student housing.
Today, Royer looks out his back porch not on grassy fairways and rolling hills, but into a bleak construction site bordered by a permanent 5-foot-high earthen wall of pine trees and shrubs.
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