Long Branch officials may ask State Public Advocate Ronald K. Chen to serve as a mediator between the city and the homeowners.... If Chen does return to the case, it only should be to continue his efforts to prevent the city from acquiring the homeowners' properties.

Eagan has big plans for the quiet streets surrounding the now-demolished Cedarvale Shopping Center. City officials envision a walkable downtown of sorts — brimming with stores, housing, offices and parking and with easy access to a high-speed bus route. After years of quietly encouraging property owners to move of their own accord or accept compensation packages, the city still faces three holdouts...

Nashville's Music Row was once a place where individualism was valued.  Large record labels have always been an important part of the Row, it's true, but they co-existed with small publishers and other cottage industries, all taking their chances at success.

City officials have closed her alley. Her property is barricaded on three sides. But inside the little brown brick building on Music Row, songwriters are still making music under Joy Ford's tutorage.

After seizing dozens of private properties through eminent domain for years, New Brighton is making it harder on itself to do so. The City Council last week established new guidelines for using eminent domain or condemnation...

The County Commission will soon wade into discussions on the Clarksville Center Redevelopment and Urban Renewal Plan. The commission previously tried to jump into the issue in November during an presentation by plan sponsors from the Downtown District Partnership.

The Metro Council may try to intervene in the seizure of a Music Row business owner's property, under a bill now being readied for debate. The council's attorney has been asked to draw up a measure that would stop eminent domain proceedings against Joy Ford...

For more than three years, Nicholas Sprayregen has kept his word to Columbia University. The largest private landowner in the footprint of the university’s planned 17-acre West Harlem expansion, he has vowed time and again to fight the university’s attempts to oust him, so long as the school threatens the use of eminent domain.

The two remaining parcels of privately owned land in the footprint of Columbia University's proposed expansion are expected to be deemed part of a "blighted" area, according to sources with knowledge of a report that will be presented to and voted on by the Empire State Development Corp. today. Adoption of the report's finding would set the stage for a legal battle over the possible use of eminent domain by the state.

New Brighton, Minn., and New London, Conn.,...believed eminent domain would revive their communities by spurring economic growth, and both have made huge investments to lure white-collar jobs with upscale neighborhoods — built where deep-rooted communities long flourished.

Blighted. That could very well be one of the most powerful words in America today.It strikes terror in the hearts of those on the receiving end of it. It's wielded like a sword by power-crazed municipalities.

36 Franklin St., which was originally Susette Kelo's home in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood and became the focal point of a Supreme Court case that sought - and failed - to save her neighborhood, is just as much a symbol as it is a house.

Vincent Barth's efforts to avoid his property being taken through eminent domain appeared to be all but futile until Wednesday's Planning Board meeting. Over the past seven months of hearings, experts hired by Pinnacle Entertainment fought Barth's arguments. His attorney, William Potter, battled bitterly with a Planning Board frustrated with seven months of hearings.

The city of Sugar Creek has forced dozens of residents from their homes for the purpose of turning over a hunk of land to a private developer. But Mayor Stan Salva keeps insisting that the city isn’t using its power of eminent domain.

A bill prohibiting governments in Delaware from using eminent domain for economic development won overwhelming support in the state Senate on Tuesday, but critics worried that local governments are losing power to the state.

Everyone agrees that reform of New Jersey's eminent domain laws is a hard and complex business.  But it's not three years hard.