City Gets OK To Take Over Shuttered South Shore Dominick’s
“The city can now use eminent domain to take over the shuttered Dominick’s in South Shore after getting City Council’s OK on Wednesday.
The Dominick’s at 2101 E. 71st St. has been vacant since December 2013 and is the only store still empty nearly a year after the grocery chained shuttered 15 locations.
“Residents in South Shore have waited too long for an owner who is not even local to bring a much-needed grocery store back to this area,” said Ald. Leslie Hairston (5th), who has pushed eminent domain as an option since October.
The ordinance passed Wednesday would allow the city to begin the eminent domain process to acquire all of 113,000-square-foot Jeffery Plaza, where Dominick’s was the anchor tenant.
The shopping center’s owner, Shervin Mateen of Cannon Commercial, vowed in October to fight any move by the city to take the shopping center.”
Cholke, Sam. DNA Info 10 December 2014.