14-year eminent domain lawsuit yields $14 million payment

“It began more than a decade ago with a $3.5 million offer, but as this paper went to press the Austin City Council was poised to approve a $14.1 million payment that may end a decade-long court battle.

The city’s legal foe: real estate lawyer Harry Whittington. The subject: a downtown block he owned that the city took by eminent domain for a convention center garage.”

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Grattan, Robert. Austin Business Journal 10 May 2013.