Council to weigh eminent domain tonight
“Long-standing negotiations with the Carr Revocable Trust to purchase the property for the development of a multimodal transit center on Taylor Street hit a wall in late April. With millions in federal funds promised for…
Providence seeks to seize control of Arnold Building
“The Providence City Council is set to give Mayor Angel Taveras the green light to seize a landmark downtown building that’s been decaying for years. The council’s Ordinance Committee voted unanimously on Tuesday to allow…
More details in Greensboro’s sale of Bessemer center
“The Greensboro City Council on Tuesday agreed to sell a rundown shopping center on Phillips Avenue to two local investors represented by former Guilford County Commissioner Melvin “Skip” Alston. The council’s 5-4 vote revealed a…
Where’s the plan for county court?
“A few weeks after announcing they would use eminent domain to buy the five-story former Shearson-Lehman building on Stroudsburg’s Main Street, commissioners are looking again at taking over Ramsey Elementary School just two blocks up…
Eminent domain OK’d as option to complete bike path bridge
“The council voted 5-2 on Tuesday with councilors Sean Morgan and Mark Sorensen dissenting to declare that public interest and necessity require the acquisition of property on Humboldt Avenue in connection with a project to…
Crunching the numbers in transit corridors
“The research — based on interviews with 24 developers, 16 employers and three major commercial real estate brokers in the Twin Cities — found that developers will sacrifice transit access if a site near a…
Tax-increment financing proposal pushed for 9th and Colorado property
“Denver Urban Renewal Authority is seeking to establish an urban redevelopment zone at the site of the old University of Colorado hospital on Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard. Denver City Council must approve a resolution…
Clayton Co. mulls tearing down apartments to build school
“Residents of a Clayton County apartment complex are hoping their pleas to end an eminent domain threat will stop the county from turning their homes into a school. Residents of the Regal Forest Apartments say…
The Cleverley Farms vs. DOT saga continues
“Larry Cleverley of Cleverley Farms, one of central Iowa’s good-food, farmers-market patriarchs is in danger of losing a big chunk of his farm near Mingo to eminent domain. The Iowa DOT has decided on two…
NJ Senate Committee Advances Eminent Domain/Redevelopment Bill
“Yesterday the Budget Committee of the New Jersey State Senate favorably reviewed and recommended approval of legislation that would codify important restrictions on the use of eminent domain in local redevelopment projects, and also would…