Hearing scheduled for 701 Main St. fight
“The commissioners condemned the commercial building at the corner of Seventh and Main streets in May in order to take ownership of the building. The condemnation passed by a 2-1 vote, with Commissioner Suzanne McCool…
Smithtown Officials Seek Land to Improve Nesconset Intersection
“Smithtown town officials are hoping to strike a deal with a Nesconset landowner to get the space to improve an intersection to make it safer – before seeking eminent domain. Smithtown Town Board said they…
Smithtown looks to avoid eminent domain in acquiring Nesconset property
“Smithtown Town Board members decided Tuesday to contact the owner of a 3,000-square-foot property near a busy Nesconset intersection in an effort to obtain the land and create a safer roadway. Officials at the town…
Citi Field’s Neighbors to Protest Evictions Before All-Star Game
“But just over Citi Field’s right field wall, the stadium casts a dark shadow over the most visible sign of unfinished business, a ramshackle 62-acre district of junkyards and auto repair shops strung along broken,…
State purchases former Episcopal Church Home
“The former Episcopal Church Home – the key Busti Avenue property needed to expand and enhance the Buffalo plaza of the Peace Bridge – is now owned by New York State. The purchase paves the…
State purchases former Episcopal Church Home
“The former Episcopal Church Home – the key Busti Avenue property needed to expand and enhance the Buffalo plaza of the Peace Bridge – is now owned by New York State. The purchase paves the…
How Massachusetts gets sports stadiums right
“THE USE OF eminent domain powers to make way for sports stadiums is always controversial. An article in the latest edition of the Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review heaps praise on the way Massachusetts…
Another step taken toward high-tech hub
“City officials are forging ahead with plans to take Peter D. Kiernan Plaza on Broadway, the historic former Union Station, through eminent domain to create a high-tech business hub tied to UAlbany’s College of Nanoscale…
Development agency still eying eminent domain to acquire Hotel Syracuse
“The agency’s five directors spent about 20 minutes talking to its attorneys behind closed doors Tuesday. Ben Walsh, the agency’s executive director, said afterward that no decision was made and no votes taken on whether…
Syracuse development agency considers taking Hotel Syracuse by eminent domain
“yracuse city officials are giving serious thought to taking ownership of the closed Hotel Syracuse via eminent domain. The Syracuse Industrial Development Agency spent an hour huddled with its lawyers behind closed doors Tuesday morning…