Real Estate & Property Law

Wisconsin Redevelopment Challenge

By Alan Ackerman

Patrick McIlheran of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel describes the disputing Greenfield, Wisconsin is one of a question of whether an area should be cleaned up so a part of Door County can have some redevelopment, or whether the owners should simply have their price demand met. The debate is well placed in the comments to the article, well worth reading.

JSOnline

How heartening:Greenfield's City Hall isn't big enough to hold all the people who turned out to tell the city not to seize property.

The city has been pondering a plan to redevelop land around the state Highway 36 junction with I-894. There was some thought of using eminent domain -- where the city buys the land from unwilling buyers at a dictated price for a public purpose. Or, in this case, as has been happening with alarming frequency elsewhere since the Supreme Court's calamitous Kelo decison, the land gets turned over to other private owners who will use it in ways the city prefers.

Full post as published by National Eminent Domain Blog on December 01, 2010 (boomark / email).