What should be done with Mayview State Hospital property?

The Mayview State Hospital Property may be transformed into a combination of park space and new development, with trails winding through environmental areas to link parks in South Fayette and Upper St. Clair. Is this the best use of the property? [Read PG story.]

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You can just envision the developers salivating over the possibilities of this property. 

South Fayette - if they were wise and really cared about property values and were thinking long-term instead how they can personally and politically benefit from this - would just leave the property "wild" and let it serve as a nature preserve and educational vehicle for children. That's it.  Recreational uses aka ball fields?  An insult.  Housing (aka McMansions)? Ugly and another insult.  Commercial development (aka chain stores, and traffic)?  No way Jose.

Leave it be as is.  Let it be quiet and let nature rule - for once.

The environmental and historic beauty of the property should be preserved... A LEED ND neighborhood that respects historic and ecological conditions is a foreign concept to public officials in Western PA. Secrecy and avoidance of a public dialogue is not a good sign.

 Tear down the Hospital due to the asbestos, build a decent housing complex.

  but before you tear it down please read on---I worked as a RN for almost 20 yrs and watched many workers with many forms of cancer  die  way too young.  and we who worked there know that we never got a report on the asbestos check they did years ago as promised.  we seen many co-workers with brain, spinal and you name it types of cancer some who only gave a few years to the hospital pass away. add in the numerous heart  and breathing  problems  which suddenly appeared and you have enough illness for an  investigation.  well since they closed so quickly I guess that will never occur.  we were always sending flowers and donating money to families of the deceased, many who were near or reached retirement age but  never got to enjoy the time they so greatly earned.  I can now only suggest to the community that surrounds Mayview to be sure, very sure that the state eliminates all asbestos that is dripping from the pipes in many of the buildings left.  they tore down the medical center while we were still working there, but  the state never took the safety measures of protecting us.