Real Estate & Property Law

DC Ct App: Final Chapter In The Skyland Condemnations?

By Robert Thomas (inversecondemnation.com)

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has issued yet another opinion about the redevelopment taking of Skyland Shopping Center.

DeSilva v. District of Columbia, No. 10-CV-1069 (Feb. 24, 2011) is not a compelling opinion, nor even a very interesting read; but it is worth a few minutes of your time since it is the tail end of a long-running tale, and what seems to be the end game in a situation that has resulted in at least five other opinions:  Rumber v. District of Columbia, 487 F.3d 941 (D.C. Cir. 2007); Franco v. National Capital Revitalization Comm'n, 930 A.2d 160 (D.C. 2007); Franco v. District of Columbia, 3 A.3d 300 (D.C. 2010); and Rumber v. District of Columbia, No. 09-7035 (D.C. Cir. Feb. 26, 2010) (per curiam); and Oh v. National Capital Revitalization Corp., 7 A.3d 997 (D.C. 2010).

Full post as published by inversecondemnation on March 08, 2011 (boomark / email).