Land dispute years in the making

I wrote this for this piece for the story in today’s paper on the whole Harrington Regional Medical Center-Amarillo Area Foundation dispute:

The issue of selling/donating land dates back to at least the early 1990s when High Plains Baptist Hospital, now called Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital, sought to buy the land along Wallace Boulevard across from itself and the Harrington Cancer Center.
“We couldn’t negotiate a price that was acceptable to us as best as I could remember,” said Steve Dalrymple, then senior vice president and general counsel for High Plains Baptist Hospital.
High Plains was looking for additional parking space, he said, but instead the hospital expanded its existing employee lot.
Steve Gens, president of the Harrington Regional Medical Center, remembered a different scenario. The hospital was looking for the land to be donated, but Gens said High Plains Baptist wouldn’t disclose how it would use it.
Later, High Plains would withdraw from the medical center, “but it was for a number of reasons, not just this land deal,” Dalrymple said. “We were looking to save some money,”
When High Plains merged with St. Anthony’s Hospital in the middle of last decade, BSA joined the organization only to withdraw last week.
“I think it’s been an ongoing issue since the medical center organization has chosen to sell property,” Dalrymple said. “I know some organizations had trouble with that.”