Nobody seems to want the former Packerton Yards site.

On Thursday, Carbon County Commissioners were scheduled to open bids for the property that was slated to become a business park. However, only one bid was submitted and was then withdrawn.Commissioner Wayne Nothstein, chairman, said the lack of bids wasn't a "total surprise.""It's a big disappointment," he said, noting that many businesses probably looked at the issues the county went through with trying to develop the land.Nothstein said that the commissioners will now look at what their next step will be.The starting bid for the 71.54-acre plot, which straddles Mahoning Township and Lehighton, was set at $300,000.The commissioners, who were once divided on the project, planned to put an industrial business park on the property but were never able to do it.The final roadblock, which brought the project to its knees, came in November 2013, when Commonwealth Court Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt upheld a January 2013 Carbon County Court of Common Pleas ruling that denied the county from developing county roads through the site.When the county announced that the property was on the market last month, the commissioners voiced their thoughts.Nothstein, who was not in favor of the purchase of the land in 2005, said the county tried its best to make this project happen and bring family-sustaining jobs to its residents."Sometimes I think government gets in its own way of trying to get something good accomplished, and I think government, in this case, certainly did that in that it prevented a great project," Nothstein said, referring to Mahoning Township denying the plans for the industrialization of the site, which led to the court case before two judges. "It just didn't work out so it's time to move on.""We really did mean well," Commissioner William O'Gurek said.O'Gurek, who was in favor of the project from the beginning, commended Nothstein and Commissioner Thomas J. Gerhard, who took over the responsibility of the project when they took office in 2012. Initially, Nothstein and Gerhard vowed to sell the property if elected into the majority commissioner seats."They had good intentions, too," O'Gurek said. "They tried but sadly they were unsuccessful, not because of their fault but they tried to give the project a chance since we were long into it and had the funding in place. It just didn't work out."Gerhard, who in February 2013, said he felt it was time to move on and stop spending money defending it in court, agreed with his colleagues, saying that it was time to see if the county could find a buyer for the property.He noted that the commissioners care about the property's future and are making sure the buyer does not contaminate the land or nearby river by putting in environmental clauses in the agreement of sale.The commissioners said they will reevaluate the project and decide what the next step will be.