Maybe we need to send these articles to the 9 Justices, along with the article showing medical costs rising 50% since Obamacare.
My what a great job they’re doing.
I would imagine the New London taxpayers are on the hook for the cost of displacing those homeowners?
The site sits empty and looks like hell. The developer should be fined daily until their great grandchildren are slaves to the Kelo evictees.
I have always wished the ‘Justices’ on the SCOTUS that voted for this should have ALL their property seized and sold. The money should go to all the people who have lost their property due to unjust ‘Eminent Domain’ claims.
Was this the first Eminent Domain claim that the properties in question could bring in more tax revenue for the Government? I never liked Eminent Domain, but it should NEVER have been used for anything other than need for public use (roads, etc).
We need to make sure that no one forgets the wrong that was done by big government or profits from that wrong. The next time there is a similar attempt to steal real property, it would be nice to point to this blight and remind the thief that they will be hated (which liberals don't care about) and never profit or even collect higher taxes from the theft (which they do care about).
Same thing happened in my town. Probably 6 or so little rectangular mill houses, 1000 - 1200 square feet, built off the ground, and hence, as easy to move as any house would ever be were on a piece of property the city claimed under eminent domain for future development. City came in with a front-end loader and demolished the houses. Now it’s just an empty lot grown over with trees now. Before I could make an offer to buy and move the houses, the city had torn them down.
scotus.. add an R, what do ya got?
Urban renewal for New London, CT: use eminent domain to seize all private property in town, bulldoze all buildings, and pave over everything to make a king size municipal parking lot. Yup, that will be a great money maker for the town politicians.