{"id":909,"date":"2017-10-11T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/10\/11\/anatomy-of-a-business-response-to-a-city-eminent-domain-for-easy-access-to-a-entertainment-district\/"},"modified":"2017-10-11T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:20:00","slug":"anatomy-of-a-business-response-to-a-city-eminent-domain-for-easy-access-to-a-entertainment-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/anatomy-of-a-business-response-to-a-city-eminent-domain-for-easy-access-to-a-entertainment-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of a Business Response to a City Eminent Domain For Easy Access to a Entertainment District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The City:\u00a0<\/strong>Oklahoma City, OK<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Entertainment Distict:<\/strong>\u00a0Bricktown<\/p>\n<p><strong>The city&#8217;s goal with the property acquisition:<\/strong>\u00a0make it easier for people to get into Bricktown<\/p>\n<p><strong>The land the city needs to get to this goal of easy access:<\/strong>\u00a0A U-Haul Parking Lot<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is UHaul agreeable: <\/strong>\u00a0Yes to the project. No to the city offered compensation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the business response:<\/strong>\u00a0An open letter to the City that makes these points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The city is asking us to rebuild and eat $4 Million in the cost of new permits and construction<\/li>\n<li>Uhaul is &#8221;\u00a0totally agreeable&#8221;\u00a0to work with the city and resolve this situation for everyone<\/li>\n<li>The summary of the business argument given to the public: &#8220;&#8221;Essentially asking a business to spend its own money &#8211; let alone almost $4 million &#8211; to accommodate a city-requested project that would hurt business and inconvenience U-Haul customers is mindboggling. And wrong,&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Uhaul started a change.org petition on the eminent domain filing by the city<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/okcfox.com\/news\/local\/u-haul-pens-open-letter-to-okc-after-threat-of-eminent-domain\">KOKH |\u00a0U-Haul of Bricktown fighting against OKC&#8217;s eminent domain case<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news9.com\/story\/36556286\/u-haul-says-citys-offer-for-parking-lot-is-short-by-millions\">News 9 KWTV |\u00a0U-Haul Says City&#8217;s Offer For Parking Lot Is Short By Millions<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfor.com\/2017\/10\/10\/city-leaders-file-for-eminent-domain-for-u-haul-property-in-downtown-oklahoma-city\/\">KFOR |\u00a0City leaders file for eminent domain for U-Haul property in downtown Oklahoma\u00a0City<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The City:\u00a0<\/strong>Oklahoma City, OK<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Entertainment Distict:<\/strong>\u00a0Bricktown<\/p>\n<p><strong>The city&#8217;s goal with the property acquisition:<\/strong>\u00a0make it easier for people to get into Bricktown<\/p>\n<p><strong>The land the city needs to get to this goal of easy access:<\/strong>\u00a0A U-Haul Parking Lot<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is UHaul agreeable: <\/strong>\u00a0Yes to the project. No to the city offered compensation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the business response:<\/strong>\u00a0An open letter to the City that makes these points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0The city is asking us to rebuild and eat $4 Million in the cost of new permits and\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,9,37,28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-trend","category-compensation","category-local-government-trend","category-private-company","category-roads","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}