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Private Business As Public Good: Hotel Development And Kelo, Joseph Blocher Jan 2006

Private Business As Public Good: Hotel Development And Kelo, Joseph Blocher

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In the summer of 2004, New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. announced plans to demolish the all-but-derelict New Haven Coliseum and replace it with a publicly financed redevelopment that would include a 300-room hotel. Critics of the plan immediately objected that the hotel-even if it were completed-was a poor public investment, that there was no demand for such a hotel, and that the money could be better spent elsewhere. Some critics pointed to New Haven's own checkered history of major development projects, especially the failed downtown mall and the famously catastrophic Oak Street redevelopment. As of February 2006, the city …


Just Compensation For Lessor And Lessee, John D. Johnston Jr. Jan 1969

Just Compensation For Lessor And Lessee, John D. Johnston Jr.

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