The City of Hurst, TX, did that when they expanded Northeast Mall in the 1990s. They forced people out of residential areas adjoining the mall, so the Mall could expand.
Altho the situation with NE mall in Hurst makes me mad to this day. It isn't the mall itself that expanded. What is now where those neighborhoods were is a BIG strip center. . . called the shops at NE Mall or somesuch. Not physically a part of the mall, but a strip center attached to the road into the mall.
And if I recall there was a woman dying of cancer that they threw out of her house too.
*shrugs* I grew up in this area. And I am just sickened by the greed in the mid-cities city gov'ts.