GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) -- A campaign to stop a proposed apartment complex in Gettysburg did little to persuade the borough's council president.

Matt Moon came out in support of the Gettysburg Station Project -- a development that would add 180 apartments as well as retail and restaurant space between Carlisle and Stratton streets.

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"From the borough's point of view, one of their key drivers would be economic growth, growing our tax base, lessening the tax burden on every resident in town and letting this parcel sit unused and wasting away is not effective," Moon said.

Many residents and local businesses opposed the project, arguing it would not blend with the historic area and would increase the tax burden.

The land sit

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