Where is "around here?" That's kind of important. As others have said elsewhere, most government contractors that require a private entity to outlay millions o

Where is "around here?" That's kind of important. As others have said elsewhere, most government contractors that require a private entity to outlay millions of dollars have a similarly long term (75 or 99 year are both common) to prevent the government from just changing its mind after the capital improvements have been made. As the article states it took a decade for CPM to make back the $1.16B it spent on the contract, which probably doesn't include any actual improvements they made, if any.