Dillard’s: Dismiss eminent-domain case
“Lawyers for Dillard’s Inc. are calling for eminent-domain proceedings to be dismissed against the company’s department store at the Twin Peaks Mall in Longmont.
Elected city officials in Longmont, acting as the Longmont Urban Renewal Authority, have asked the court to allow them to take title of the department store. The Longmont Urban Renewal Authority vs. Dillard’s Properties Inc. eminent domain case is slated for 9 a.m. Thursday, July 25, in Boulder District Court.
Eminent domain is the term used to describe a government’s legal right to take private property for public use after compensating a property owner. The urban renewal authority previously offered Dillard’s $3.6 million for the store and the land on which it sits.
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Potter, Beth. Boulder Business Report 24 July 2013.