Oklahoma City seeks to condemn, acquire Santa Fe train depot in $21 million dispute
“Oklahoma City thinks downtown’s Santa Fe train depot is worth $2.5 million. The owners, Brent and Brett Brewer, think it’s worth $23.5 million.
Neither side is budging, so the city is going to court to force the dispute into eminent domain to turn the depot into a transit hub for a new $128 million streetcar system.
Twenty years ago, the depot stood abandoned and dilapidated with no eager takers when the Brewers’ father, the late Jim Brewer, entered into a yearslong purchase negotiation with the BNSF Railway.”
Lackmeyer, Steve. News OK 28 May 2013.