Oklahoma City seeks to condemn, acquire Santa Fe train depot in $21 million dispute
“Oklahoma City thinks downtown’s Santa Fe train depot is worth $2.5 million. The owners, Brent and Brett Brewer, think it’s worth $23.5 million. Neither side is budging, so the city is going to court to…
Town is still in deadlock with family over land for sewer project
“Progress on an EPA-mandated sewer lagoon expansion project on Cemetery Rd. hit another log-jam, so the town board hired an eminent domain law firm in a special meeting Wed., Oct. 10. The town has acquired…
The impact of eminent domain is causing more damage
If you have ever read Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth or its sequel World Without End, you have a sense of what it was like to live in a time when your hard work…