Never mind Texas. The latest hot spot for a hostile take-over is right here in our own back yard.

The city has announced its plan to utilize its potential eminent domain rights to force some redevelopment activity at the long-forsaken Star Market site in Winter Hill.

Let’s face it. This saga has gone on a long time and practically everyone who cares about the issue feels that it’s high time something gets done, and the sooner the better too.

Of course, the wheels of bureaucracy grind slowly, and this effort by the city to get the process moving could take as long as it has to get where we are now. In other words, a very long time.

Meantime, residents and potential investors stand back and wonder how much more decay and deterioration the area can stand while the powers-that-be tussle with the powers-that-wanna-be. Many seem to just want to see something new go onto the site. Anything is better than nothing. Right?

Still, a good number of viable proposals have been laid on the table and ultimately not come to fruition, which is a very frustrating thing to endure.

Perhaps the city’s latest maneuvering will shake up the situation to the point where a final and generally satisfactory resolution of the matter will be achieved.

It doesn’t have to come to blows in the end. Somewhere out there, a viable plan exists. It’s just going to take some real effort on the part of all parties involved to identify and embrace it.

Give peace a chance.