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January 5, 2010
It came from the Blogosphere...
StreetsBlog, Stadium Deals Drain Cities
In New York, local businesses in the Bronx have complained they're being hurt rather than helped by the new Yankee Stadium, which is designed to encourage fans to spend all of their game-day dollars within the ballpark walls. Meanwhile, Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards project, which centers on a stadium for the NBA's Nets, grinds forward, with one of the last property owners holding out on the site reportedly considering moving out. Both the Nets and the Yankees deals earned a place on our 2009 Streetsie roll of shame.
FireDogLake, Here’s some quality, independent media that’s worth your time
The Atlantic Yards Report is a single investigative project that focuses on a nearly $5 billion development in Brooklyn.
The Local, Linkfest: Bees, Trees, Beer and Sardines
In the department of year-end wrap ups, Atlantic Yards Report has a comprehensive look back at 2009 in Atlantic Yards developments, or lack thereof.
The Liberty Zone, And you thought Kelo was bad!
Kelo vs. New London was one of the most repulsive, sickening infringements on the right to private property I've ever seen and the most egregiously noxious decision by the Supreme Court in decades. In it, the Supreme Court decided that the "benefits" a community reaped from destroying private property in favor of a developer outweighed the rights of private property owners. In essence, the court decided that the use of eminent domain for economic development didn't violate the constitutional limits placed on the government, and that it constituted "public use."
To me, it means that the government can seize anyone's property any time some overzealous developer wants to build a Wal Mart. It's economic development after all, and according to the Kelo case, that makes it "public use."
NoLandGrab: Bet you won't have a hard time guessing what "this" is.
International Liberty, Another “Eminent Domain” Scandal
Ever since the Supreme Court’s odious Kelo decision, which allowed a city in Connecticut to seize a woman’s home for the benefit of a politically-connected big corporation, there has been a deep concern that this would open the door to more examples of government-sanctioned theft. George Will is particularly (and appropriately) vicious in his analysis of how corrupt politicians in New York are seeking to steal private property to benefit a rich developer....
Posted by lumi at January 5, 2010 5:16 AM