As private companies and government agencies engage in a continued push to make needed infrastructure upgrades and improvements, eminent domain and condemnation remain hot-button issues. Click here to read the…
A year ago, if you’d have asked Bloomfield Hills attorney Alan Akerman what a farmer’s dream is–though a tear ago, there was no reason to ask such an obscure question–he’d…
Determining the value of your waterfront property when a government wants it for public use requires a much more detailed analysis than simply measuring square footage. Click here to read…
This article describes the historical standard for challenges to the necessity of eminent domain takings, the effects of the 1963 Michigan Constitution on necessity challenges, and more. Click here to…
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…
This article explores whether the minimum constitutional and statutory requirements are being fulfilled by condemning agencies in the “good faith written offer” process. Statutory Framework All condemnation proceedings in Michigan…
Darius Dynkowski isn’t one to name-drop, but if he was . . . How about Frank Sinatra for starters? Then there was the time that he rubbed elbows with Muhammad…
On Thursday, Awdish shut down Frank’s Fast Break Sunoco at Crooks and South Boulevard after two years of trying to keep afloat. He blames road improvements in the area –…
Twenty-seven years ago, the city of Detroit and General Motors Corp.’s quest to obtain 465 acres of land to build a Cadillac plant in an old Hamtramck-Detroit neighborhood was adamantly…