City considers swapping donated high ground for swamp land

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Let's remember who approached whom..it was Gilcrease.  The city didn't.  Thomas Gilcrease approached the mayor.

Buddy.  You need to get the images of black helicopters out of your head.

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You are exactly right Gilcrease was a collector and not a promoter.  He assumed the city would promote the collection and approached the mayor, who represents the city, with the free gift and the oil royalties was set aside to maintain and promote it.  At the present price of oil even a 3 barrel stripper pays well.  The city actually had no investment other than to promote it but the city bureaucracies took over and most citizens don't even know it exist nor its location

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The council is asking some hard questions (TW) on the swapping for the substandard lands, at a cost to the city taxpayer, on the presumption manufactures is going to climb over each other just to have a place to locate.  Course the Air Port Authority wants control to add it to their little Fiefdom.  The biggest problem is that the land is not it China or Japan where our manufacturing is well seated already.
Seems it always happens when some one gives a free gift to help put a city on the map and the bureaucracy declares “No that mine and don’t belong to the citizens.”