City plans to take church property for new soccer stadium

“A 30-year-old church is standing in the way of Orlando’s plans for a new soccer stadium and the city plans to use eminent domain to get the property.

Members of the family-owned Faith Deliverance Temple on W. Church Street said they’re insulted by the city’s offer to buy the property. The church has been in the same spot since the early 1980s, but now Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said the city needs the church’s land for the new soccer stadium.”

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WFTV 23 January 2014.