U-M to buy 4 homes, pursue eminent domain for new dorm on Blimpy Burger site
“The school plans to purchase two properties on South Division Street and two properties on East Madison Street for $3.17 million. The properties total just under 0.4 acres. The school recently bought the building that houses Blimpy Burger, and an adjacent building, on South Division Street for $1.5 million.
To make way for two other buildings on South Division Street the university is pursuing eminent domain because the owners would not agree to a deal with the university.
“We would like to proceed using the eminent domain process,” U-M Chief Financial Officer Timothy Slottow told regents. Slottow wrote in a memo that negotiations with the property owners “have failed” and said the parcels “are necessary for the project.””
Woodhouse, Kellie. Ann Arbor.com 18 April 2013.
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