If you lived in the middle of a slum and found you couldn't borrow to expand your landscape business you'd agree too.
Kelo is one of those cases that pit pro-business folks against small residential property owners. All the Court ruled was that in Connecticut the state's own laws allowed for the rationale being used to use eminent domain.
Most states have Constitutions that don't allow for that rationale. Kelo occurred AFTER the dispute between the ACRDA and Vera began. Interestingly enough the ACRDA/Vera dispute doesn't involve pitting a business against a residential property owner ~ Vera ran a business out of her small hotel ~ so this is business on business shenanigans. She asked too high a price.
Then there's Vera's behavior with respect to Bob Guccione's attempt to build his casino. He had the zoning. He had the property. He had the capital resources lined up. He was building and Vera began a campaign of harrassment and intimidation to force a halt to the construction. She succeeded.
When I got to that part in my research on this case I finally figured out that Bob Guccione didn't have as good a connection to the Mob as I'd always thought he had, or if he had a connection it was at too low a level. Vera had better connections or she wouldn't have been able to get platoons of Atlantic City "inspectors" sent out to the casino site.
It's all about the price. It's about the mob. It's about how they use the government.
Trump has far better connections than the small time bunco artists in Atlantic City it would appear so he was able to build around the problem. Vera didn't manage to get his construction work halted.