By Audrey Jensen | Phoenix Business Journal
At the start of the Great Recession, dozens of Wittmann residents and ranchers banded together to fight a city of Surprise proposal that would significantly impact their rural community.
BNSF Railway Co., owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK.A), was eyeing the Valley for its next rail facility and had asked the city to designate hundreds of acres in Wittmann for industrial uses, city of Surprise documents said in 2007.
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