Today is the last selection of some favorite comments of 2010.

Here’s the second installment of 2010 favorite reader comments chosen by Echo staff.

Don’t miss the last round of staff picks tomorrow.

Annually the Echo staff collects our favorite comments of the previous year.

For the next three days we will publish a sample of the reader reactions that our reporters enjoyed in 2010.

Here’s the start:

Here’s a list of the most viewed Echo stories of 2010. In the world of social media, how much should readership trends influence what we provide? A lot? A little? Not at all?

Faced with unoccupied land and a scarcity of fresh, healthy foods, Detroit is reviving its tradition of urban agriculture. But this time, an entrepreneur has proposed for-profit commercial farming instead of non-profit experiments.

A Wisconsin city looks to job creation as a motivation for brownfield redevelopment. Racine hopes to eliminate contaminated urban sites and attract jobs with the help of a $1 million federal grant.

As traditional brownfield redevelopment funds dwindle, state and local officials seek creative public measures and private investment to finance new uses of urban land – like jump-starting a Midwest movie industry.

The Fort Piqua Hotel hosted three U.S. presidents, rallies for Women’s Suffrage and Prohibition and some of the first Civil Rights sit-ins. That past ensured its future. In Ohio, most brownfield sites are razed. The Fort Piqua Hotel is unusual.

The nation’s largest urban solar plant is built on a Chicago industrial site once contaminated by lead paint. It’s part of an alternative energy trend: Using abandoned urban properties to generate power where people live.

The shores of Lake Erie here are scarred with remnants of another time. But amidst the eyesores is evidence of Buffalo’s exciting future. Eight wind turbines hint at a broader redevelopment driven by diverse motivations. Local officials are using the past to prepare for the future and revive a city from economic shock.