The key issue: Business owners, who do not own the business’s property, may be forced into move
The eminent domain issue: Texas does not recognize a comepnsable value for a tenant business
Do other states compensate a tenant? Yes, look at California
The property in dispute & the project: A new dental school facility at Texas A&M may require that the university acquire the property occuppied by the Elbow Room
Does this sound familiar, a popular establishment near a university facing eminent domain? In 2005 Players, at the University of Texas at Austin, was protected from eminent domain in the Texas Legislature’s ban on eminent domain for economic development.
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