Eminent Domain Round Up
Eminent Domain hurting businesses:
A local business that has served the Huntington community for 59 years is being forced out by Marshall University. Eminent domain, the law that allows government to seize private property for public use, has been a buzz word around the Tri-State recently.
Glaser Furniture, a business located on Third Avenue, is being forced to close so Marshall can expand. What message is this sending to other local businesses? How can one business, who has helped the Marshall community, simply be forced to close? Huntington was founded before Marshall was a university, and although Marshall makes Huntington the city it is today, there needs to be some limits to where Marshall can go.
And I really don’t think a university expansion qualifies as public use.
In Norwood, the powers that be want to demolish a math and reading center for some upscale offices and condos.
Another group in New Jersey is fighting for their homes that are slated to be bulldozed for redevelopment. Of note to me was this quote:
“I have been representing property owners all over New Jersey for 30 years in eminent domain cases,” Wegener said. “It is my entire practice.
Fighting for property rights is enough to keep a full time lawyer in New Jersey busy.
