Jersey City councilman wants to halt sale of city property seized by eminent domain
“A Jersey City councilman is calling on Mayor Steve Fulop to halt the sale of city property seized by the previous administration via eminent domain.
Fulop’s plan calls for the property, a 64,622-square-foot building at 15 East Linden Ave., to be sold at auction next month. The city expects to receive $4 million for the one-story building.
Ward C Councilman Rich Boggiano said he wants the plan pulled from the agenda for tonight’s council meeting, saying the property should either be kept for a new police academy or given back to its former owner.
“It’s a moral issue, to return it to the person who had it,” Boggiano said.
City spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill said the city will not consider handing the property back to its former owner, John Mondry, who ran Liberty Storage on the site until the city seized it in 2011.”
McDonnald, Terrence. NJ.com 28 May 2014.