National Eminent Domain Blog

This blawg covers eminent domain and condemnation.

Author: Alan Ackerman is the managing partner of Ackerman Ackerman & Dynkowski in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

Blawg Related Categories: Administrative Law • Real Estate & Property Law • States • Indiana • Michigan • Ohio • Solo / Small Firm

Recent Posts from National Eminent Domain Blog

Kinder Morgan Project
Summary of the Proposed Project Kinder Morgan proposes to construct and modify its existing Huntsman Storage Facility. Kinder Morgan says that the completion of the Huntsman Ridge Expansion Project would benefit the Rocky Mountain region…
Florida Dept of Transportation Public Hearing
TBO ZEPHYRHILLS - The Florida Department of Transportation's plans for widening U.S. 301 between Zephyrhills and Dade City involves very little widening. The department studied two options for widening the 71/2-mile road to six lanes,…
Public Interest
The Badger Herald Most people would agree that taking someone’s property against his will is immoral. Forcing your neighbor to sell his house, for instance — regardless of the amount offered — would be morally…
Judge ponders consolidating
Gwinnett Daily Post A judge will consider consolidating two cases involving a controversial land deal to buy property for the McGinnis Ferry Road extension. Tony Powell, an attorney representing Old Peachtree Partners, asked Judge Debra…
Nashville is in for a fight
Nashville Business Journal Appraisers working for the Metropolitan Development and Housing Agency had the task of assigning values to several downtown properties that may soon give way to a new downtown convention center. Determining property…
Delaware Chrysler Site Purchased
Delaware Online The University of Delaware signed an agreement Friday with Chrysler to purchase the 272-acre site of the company's shuttered Newark assembly plant for the bargain price of $24.25 million. The university…
Columbia Gas Transmission 'flat out lying,' resident declares
Cumberland Times To Flintstone resident Billy Joe Mathis, the tactics employed by Columbia Gas Transmission and its efforts to find additional storage capacity for natural gas progressed to demands, intimidation, threats and outright lies. An…
Just compensation is not a windfall
Kansas City Star A condemnation begun during downtown’s redevelopment rush in 2005 has been settled, and while the market is decidely cooler, the owners of Gigi’s Wigs & Beauty Supplies are $1 million richer.…
Green Bay has a serious problem
Green Bay Press Gazette The state Supreme Court has declined to review a court ruling that Green Bay must pay at least $6.4 million in a case involving the city's efforts to redevelop the old…
Sometimes acquisition agencies do it right
Link to complete filing The linked Petition by Blue Sky for certification and conversion of a previously operating gas production facility to a natural gas storage facility, states that it does or is about to…