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Forced Turnovers: Using Eminent Domain To Build Professional Sports Venues, Peter Montine
Forced Turnovers: Using Eminent Domain To Build Professional Sports Venues, Peter Montine
Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts
If a city wants to keep a professional sports team within its borders, can that city use the power of eminent domain to do so? Although cities have not been able to successfully condemn the actual sports franchises within their respective cities, they have been successful in condemning land for the development of new sports venues intended to entice their teams to stay. In 2005, the City of Arlington, Texas invoked the power of eminent domain to condemn and destroy houses to make room for the Dallas Cowboys’ new stadium. In 2006, New York City used eminent domain on land …