Real Estate & Property Law

St. Louis Eminent Domain Plan

By Alan Ackerman

Fort Mill Times

A group called the North Side Community Benefits Alliance scheduled a meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Shining Light Pentecostal Church. They'll discuss protections against eminent domain, a government power to take private property for a public purpose.

Developer Paul McKee has submitted a multibillion-dollar proposal for a redevelopment project on the city's north side. McKee has said he would pursue eminent domain only where it would lead to substantial job creation.  AP, August 20, 2009           

The St. Louis, MO private developer plan, to tear up square miles of the City via eminent domain, is suspect.  On the one hand there is the claimed need for rehabilitation of an alleged deteriorated portion of the City of St. Louis.  Yet, letting the onus of condemnation to sit out there for years raises substantial questions of whether Due Process and payment of Just Compensation are being paid.

Full post as published by National Eminent Domain Blog on August 30, 2009 (boomark / email).