Posted on 12/13/2007 10:32:50 AM PST by jim_trent
Finally it appears the city has set a real deadline for Corcoran Jennison to prove that it can move forward with development plans on the Fort Trumbull peninsula. The New London Development Corp.'s decision to take a firm stand is long overdue and much welcomed.
For seven years the Boston development group has been the preferred developer for the property. Progress stalled for years because of the bitter eminent domain fight that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court before being decided in the city's favor in June 2005.
That delay was frustrating enough, but the failure to see any new construction on the property in the more than two years since has been downright maddening. The first new construction is supposed to be 66 luxury apartments and 14 townhouses on a 4-acre tract once occupied by the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.
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Not for nothing. The lawyers were quite well paid.
The travesty of Business Socialism....seizing private property to redistribute to another private group....usually one who paid off the government.
I wonder how those city officials and developers sleep at night...probably with a night light!
It happens all over. In my neck of the woods, a city bought out and tore down an entire neighborhood for a big development.
They were scammed by a slick operator and now all they have is a collapsing steel shell of an ice arena that the developer is holding hostage by threatening to sue if the city reclaims the land. It took the city two years to even fence the land, despite the fact that steel beams randomly fall from the building’s shell.
The voters of New London should be pleased that their will was carried out and people lost their property.
The voters in this miserable little city are the scum responsible for this mess.
Turn into a greenbelt.
“The voters of New London should be pleased that their will was carried out and people lost their property.”
Is that true...? I thought this case decided by the Supremes? Am I confused w/another case? TIA.
bmflr, looks like I’ll need a barf bag when I read it.
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According to Intrade, the winner of yesterday’s GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
If the jerks in New London possessed the least bit of intelligence they would not have empowered government that they chose to.
Once the land grab started they failed to clean house by bouncing every elected official, thus supporting the land grab.
This is why I feel the voters in New London deserve a special place in hell.
If voters are not responsible for their decisions, why vote?
This is Connecticut, where “Something for Nothing” is the underlying premise of every politician’s campaign for reelection. The state motto, “Qui Transtultit Sustinet,” can be translated as “Where’s Mine?”
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