When the city of Springfi eld in 2014 forked out more than $1.5 million to buy the oversized block just north of the governor’s mansion, civic leaders, to borrow a phrase from The Trumpster, called it huge. A really, really big deal. This was going to be a crown jewel, a spark that would ignite downtown development, perhaps even a renaissance. But the property purchased from the state remains mostly parking lot with the old-and-in-the-way YWCA building posing both opportunity and headache to would-be developers who must decide whether to scrape it or spend lots and lots of money trying to make it useable for… well, that remains the big question. Folks have talked about commercial or retail or residential development, but there has been nothing close to concrete. The city under former Mayor Mike Houston solicited and received seven letters of interest from developers who provided ideas but no details, and Mayor Jim Langfelder, elected in April, put things on hold last summer. Now the mayor wants to give $125,000 in tax-increment fi nance money to Stantec, a Boston-based consultant that would analyze possibilities, vet developers, come up with proposals and make a fi nal recommendation to the city. The city council this week tabled the mayor’s proposal.