My wife’s father owned a liquor store. Redevelopment forced him and others from the block. It was a couple blocks from a new subway station, where he used to own a store and was forced out when they built the station. Here it is 30 years later, and the liquor store site is a little-used parking lot because the city’s project failed. Eminent domain did not do much public good on this one. He gave up on stores and bought an apartment complex, crossing his fingers that it wouldn’t be taken from him.
Perhaps this is what that alleged train to nowhere in California is actually all about?
take all the “necessary land....and rhen when the project goes belly up...they sell the land....