John Gallagher/The Detroit Free Press – The Moroun family that owns the Ambassador Bridge could soon launch a few legal Hail Marys to try to block or delay the rival Gordie Howe International…
John Gallagher/The Detroit Free Press – A potential showdown could flare soon between Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel (Matty) Moroun and the State of Michigan over land in southwest Detroit needed for the Gordie Howe…
Jack Lessenberry/Detroit Metro Times – By this time, earth-moving equipment should be crawling over all the approaches leading to where the new Gordie Howe International Bridge is to rise. Crews should…
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Farmland protection advocates say the power to condemn land is the power to legally destroy the farm. Click here to read the entire article.
What restaurant owners and operators can do to anticipate and mitigate the costs and consequences of condemnation. Click here to read the entire article.
The Uniform Condemnation Procedures Act (UCPA), MCL 213.55(3)(a) requires condemning agencies to submit “good faith offers” to purchase before initiating lawsuits to acquire property. Click here to read entire article.
The Midwest, and Michigan in particular, is emerging as a center for clean energy. But at a cost, of course. That price has yet to be determined for several large…
One of the great challenges in a recessionary cycle is reconciling the apparent contradiction between property values disproportionately impacted by the short-term realities of a lean marketplace and a more…
When Warren Mayor Jim Fouts called Detroit’s aging infrastructure a “ticking time bomb that’s ready to go off” earlier this year, he was referring to the state of Southeast Michigan’s…