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> - New London, CT used eminent domain to take an entire neighborhood of private homes to give the land to Phizer because Phizer would generate more tax revenue
by chops 14y ago
> - New London, CT used eminent domain to take an entire neighborhood of private homes to give the land to Phizer because Phizer would generate more tax revenue.
...and after bulldozing the neighborhood, lost their funding, avandoned the project, and turned the neighborhood into a literal dump.
Wow! What a grossly offensive thing for the courts to support, regardless of the fact the outcome was a net negative.
Thanks for posting that. I had not heard of that particular case.
- wmil 14y agoThis one is actually incredibly interesting... it seems like we're not getting the whole story. There isn't much written about the neighbourhood... But looking at the New London wiki page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut , there's some interesting demographic info. In 2000 New London had 25,671 people and was 18.64% black. In 2010 the population was 27,620 and in 2006-2008 14.0% black. So, using some rough math, there were 900 fewer black people in New London after Kelo. Makes you wonder if the Phizer lab was the goal.
- lhnn 14y agoI'm not against theories, but if race filtering was their goal, they seemed to have failed. Moreso when you consider the cost of the effort... so I'm not going for it. And urban blacks (and many urban people, period) are often poor. A business might want cheap land to create a suburban work area. Prices go up, poor people move out. It doesn't have to be racial.