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.
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Recent Posts from National Eminent Domain Blog
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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…
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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…
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FMV in a Down Market
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Millions to Nowhere
The News Tribune Millions to nowhere Earlier this month the Port of Tacoma canceled plans to develop the Blair-Hylebos Peninsula and to build a terminal for NYK Line. It was a complex project that…
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MoDot spending $2.3 million to get bridge right-of-way that city sold for $2
Lake Expo Online ST. LOUIS -- At least two years after engineers selected the route of ramps for a new Mississippi River bridge, a city agency agreed in 2003 to sell publicly owned land in…
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Expansion of the Cunningham Storage Field Located in Pratt and Kingman Counties, Kansas
Many utilities have arrived at a conclusion that their storage fields effectively “leak”, or “travel outside the original contemplated storage area.” We can find a number of recent filings such as the Pratt and Kingman…
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Head I win, tails you lose
Oakland Press Consumers Energy says it plans to implement an interim natural gas rate increase of $89 million next month. The utility says the change would increase a residential customer’s bill by about $3.50…
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Texans' dislike of eminent domain
Star Telegram On Nov. 3, Texans will have to decide just how much power government should have at its disposal to take private property for a "public good." Proposition 11 would, in theory, limit the…
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Preakness Safeguard
Hometown Annapolis A new Maryland law allows the state to use eminent domain to seize the Preakness, in the event of a deal to take that race out of the state. Magna International, the…
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St. Louis: inviting bad deals
St. Louis Dispatch O'Fallon-based McEagle Properties wants the rights to rebuild much of a 1,500-acre swath of north St. Louis. To get the project off the ground, it wants $391 million in tax-backed financing.…