Real Estate & Property Law

Boise State Neighbors From High Stock Analyst

By Alan Ackerman

Universities frequently need to expand.  Medical centers and medical activities are key to research and development.  All the research and development requires additional land.  Therefore, to accommodate the need to expand, universities often use the eminent domain process.  Whether they like it or not, the university campus' has to use the condemnation tool when required.  However, they should also remember fair market value is a pre-requisite to the process.

Idaho Statesman
 
The school's 10-year master plan, written in 2005 and updated in 2008, shows the university expanding southeast of the campus, where it envisions new academic buildings (biology, chemistry, physics) and graduate student housing.

In 2005, the State Board of Education granted the university eminent domain authority to acquire properties in a 14-block area south of the campus, north of Beacon Street and between Denver and Oakland avenues.

Full post as published by National Eminent Domain Blog on July 03, 2010 (boomark / email).