Category Archives: stadium

Campaign Trend. Eminent Domain. 3 Key Reforms Touted.

What eminent domain reforms are being touted by a campaign?

  • Deny eminent domain to private entities
  • Shift Burden of Proof from the land owner to the condeming entity
  • New Standard for Public Use:
    • ​a “purpose wholly for public use and necessity”
  • Good Faith Negotiations by condeming entities
  • Require a condemning entity to evaluate:
    • health and safety impacts of their project
    • weigh impact of alternatives to those requiring condemnation

Concord (NH) Patch | Rubens Proposes…

Tarrant County Voices on Eminent Domain. 4 Bits Informed Intel.

In a letter to the editor of the Ft. Worth Star Telegram, a North Texan from the Tea Party rich lands, makes the following points about eminent domain:

  • The land owners had to go to court to get just and adequate compensation.
  • Forcing this into the courts is “either gross incompetence or willful abuse of authority.”
  • its not cool when  the “Rangers initially didn’t want to pay the judgments, insisting this was the city’s (taxpayers’) responsibility. This in spite of being lavished…

3 Reasons an Ethics Professor Says the Arlington Baseball Stadium Should Have Not Used Eminent Domain

  • A ball park is neither a public use nor a public purpose
  • There is no public benefit of a ball park
    • And, if you try to say there is an economic benfit, he’ll throw studies at you to say that is not true
  • Taking land from one property owner to give it to another so they can make money is no different than Kelo, and that’s what happened in Arlington

–Richard Galvin is the Betty S. Wright Professor in Applied Ethics at Texas Christian University. Star Telegram | Greene got it wrong on use…

Eminent Domain & Stadiums Trending. 2 Keys to Know Now.

  • Trump jabbed Bush over the use of eminent domain by the Texas Rangers ballpark in the early 1990s. 
  • One family sued over the taking of their property for the Ranger Stadium and was awarded $7.1 million.

Dallas Morning News Sports Day | How Donald Trump used the Texas Rangers’ ballpark to take a political jab at Jeb Bush

New Zealand Sportal | The Donald, Jeb! butt heads over Rangers’ ballpark

NBC Sports | Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Eminent Domain and the history of the Rangers Ballpark

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Comptroller's Eminent Domain Data Base Getting Attention

Wharton area residents are reciving information on Comptroller Hegar’s legislative enacted Eminent Domain transperancy data base set to go online soon. 

Wharton Journal Spectator | New law promotes transparency for eminent domain

Comptroller Eminent Domain Transparency Project

NBA Stadium Held Out as Eminent Domain Failure. 3 Keys for Stadium Builders to Know.

  • No Return on Investment. the stadium is a financial loser. Losing $9 million in its 3rd year.
  • Stadium Community promises Unfulfilled. the promised housing has yet to be developed
  • Eminent Domain Abuse Abounds. Redevelopment is faltering. A sporting goods store that closed in the stadium construction remains a vacant lot.

Who is saying this? Reason

About which NBA Stadium? Brooklyn’s Barclay’s Center

A documentary about the Brooklyn stadium was shortlisted for an Oscar for best…

Deadline to Report Eminent Domain Power Fast Approaching. 5 Things to Know About Eminent Domain Transparency.

  • Online eminent domain database was created by SB 1812 (Kolkhorst & Geren)
  • All entities with eminent domain authority, public & private, can begin reporting on December 7th. The Form will be here. 
  • Deadline for reporting is February 1, 2016.
  • Comptroller recommends that entities with eminent domain authority designate one officer or employee as point of contact for current eminent domain information
  • 10 Pieces of Information will be online:
    • the entity’s full legal name;
    • the…

Stadium Building Led to Eminent Domain Lawsuit filed by City. City Issues Economic Development Press Release.

Washington DC is building a new MLS stadium. MLS is futbol –the world’s football. It’s played with a round ball, not a pointed oblong shaped object.

To build the MLS stadium, it needed to aquire land. Acquiring land isn’t always easy, and at times requires eminent domain.

To move forward with eminent domain, the city filed suit against land owners. The city then issued a press release that said the stadium will:

  • transform a neighborhood
  • generate hundreds of new jobs

DC.gov |  District…

NFL Stadium Backers Gain Eminent Domain on Unanimous Vote

St. Louis NFL backers gained the power of eminent domain this week when the Regional Sports Authority voted unanimously to allow for eminent domain.

The Regional Sports Authority Chairman said he did not expect to use eminent domain, but it is available if necessary.

The new Riverfront stadium is in the planning stage and has spent $9 million with “no commitment from any NFL owner… to invest $250 million in the plan.” Whther the Rams stay or go is anticipated to be announced by the NFL…