Kelo Update: Eminent Domain in New London — Poetic Justice or Sour Economy?

What is happening in New London, Connecticut now, more than four years after the United States Supreme Court’s opinion in the Kelo v. New London matter?

Source: Associated Press

“There are a few signs of life: Feral cats glare at visitors from a miniature jungle of Queen Anne’s lace, thistle and goldenrod. Gulls swoop between the lot’s towering trees and the adjacent sewage treatment plant.

But what of the promised building boom that was supposed to come wrapped and ribboned with up to 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenues? They are noticeably missing.

Proponents of the ambitious plan blame the sour economy. Opponents call it a “poetic justice.”

Read more from the Associated Press here.