Nashville landowner prevails in eminent domain battle against city
“Nashville must make up for the fair market value for the $15 million a private developer said it lost when city officials used eminent domain laws to take its land to build the Music City Convention Center.
The Tennessee Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from the city’s Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency. MDHA had appealed a series of rulings that began when a Nashville jury found in 2011 that the city shortchanged Tower Investments for five-and-a-half acres of land downtown.
That means taxpayers will ultimately pay more for the $500 million convention center than city officials promised.”
Butler, Chris. Watchdog.org 18 October 2013.