[Steve_Seattle]

"Did you miss the fact, that although the city owns the land, the scouts built the building in 1928, in return for the $1 year rent?"

If that's true, and if there's a written contract formalizing that arrangement, then the city might be in breach of contract. But if it was a city ordinance or resolution, it can probably be unilaterally amended or revoked by the city.

[muawiyah]

A contract is a contract. If the Scouts built the building in return for the rent, and the city wants to break the deal seems to me the City of Philadelphia may well have purchased a really expensive building.

Things probably worth half to 3/4 of a billion dollars, and that's just a bottem end guess, eh!

Well, I'm sure the city's lawyers will understand that.