The stadium: FC Cincinnati
The opposition Op-Ed author: A former Cincinnati mayor and founder and CEO of the Center for Closing the Health Gap
The eminent domain problem:
- History is a problem.
- In the 1950s 26,000, mostly minority residents, were displaced from eminent domain for an redevelopment project
- When I-75 was expanded, the same displacement of minority residents occurred
- Relocation never occured. The 1950s eminent domain use did not bring relocation to fruition
- There was no redevelopment. The same are remains economically repressed.
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