The City of Los Angeles used eminent domain to take a popular Hollywood bar and numerous other small businesses so that the city could hand the land over to private developers planning to build a W hotel and million-dollar condos. Fortunately, there’s a better way to revitalize neighborhoods.http://reason.tv/video/show/58.html

The city’s ambitious plan for Willets Point, the bleak industrial zone in Queens, envisions a gleaming new commercial development to replace the chop shops and warehouses. But a growing chorus of ­discontent is rising among business owners there who accuse city officials of making empty promises.http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2007/2007-12-18-12-18_willets_point_busines_owners_accuse_city.html

Audacious. Over the top. Unprecedented. A developer’s “fantasy come true.”

All words used Friday evening to describe the Clarksville Center Redevelopment Plan…
http://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2007/12/15/residents-enraged-at-blight-designation-seek-repeal-of-redevelopment-plan/

Just days after a deal between Fresno and Donald Trump to revive the bankrupt Running Horse golf course development was declared dead, Trump has given the city a new ultimatum — use its eminent domain power or he’s out.

http://www.fresnobee.com/business/story/268727.html

The city of Vista could consider using its eminent domain powers to help a developer acquire four parcels on North Santa Fe Avenue for an 8.9-acre residential and commercial project. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20071213-9999-1mi13santafe.html

Opponents and backers of Columbia’s planned expansion into Manhattanville took their fight to City Hall Wednesday in a packed and tense public hearing. http://www.amny.com/news/local/am-columbia1213,0,1387728.story

Alderman Eugene Schulter, 47th, backed down from a plan to condemn privately owned businesses on the 4800 block of North Western Avenue and hand them over to private developers–sort of. http://www.pioneerlocal.com/newsstar/news/691241,SN-EminentDomainLatest-121207-s1.article

Castle Coalition members Dennis Sparrow and Jane Carpenter are respected nationally as property rights advocates, says Missouri’s Property Rights Czarhttp://www.zwire.com/site/tab6.cfm?newsid=19104330&BRD=2841&PAG=461&dept_id=603536&rfi=6

A fight over the use of eminent domain is shaping up at City Hall, as the City Council approaches a vote on Columbia University’s plan to expand its campus by 17 acres in Harlem.http://www.nysun.com/article/67893