D.C. Council threatens eminent domain in revised D.C. United stadium plan, McMillan on the docket
“Two D.C. Council committees will move Tuesday to approve a pair of long-awaited economic development measures, one that would dispose of the McMillan Sand Filtration Site for redevelopment and another that would authorize eminent domain to make a new D.C. United stadium a reality.
Key to the amended D.C. United stadium plan is the removal, as Mayor-elect Muriel Bowser promised, of the land swap between the District and Akridge involving the Reeves Center at 14th and U streets. Akridge was to get Reeves in return for two of its Buzzard Point acres and cash, but the council, led by Bowser, balked.
Instead, the economic development (chaired by Bowser, D-Ward 4) and government operations committees will adopt a measure that overtly threatens the use of eminent domain to acquire the properties that D.C. and D.C. United need for the $300 million, 20,000-seat facility.”
Neibaurer, Michael. Washington DC Business Journal 25 November 2014.