Unlike previous attempts when no bids were received, there has been quite a bit of buying interest in three vacant Market Street lots. At their regular meeting Monday, the Mt. Carmel City Council opened bids on the lots which included the former Warren Oil lot in the 300 block of which Constance Folsom was the lone bidder at $250. Dave Dallas was the high bidder for the former Hadley’s lot at $7,000, and Dan Schonert was the high bidder for the three lots adjacent to his office in the 500 block at $3,555. The city council took the bids under advisement and will vote on them at their next meeting in two weeks. When the city previously put the lots on the auction block, there were no takers.