You remember that, right? The public went ballistic to a point where even the Right and Left were in agreement. The Supreme Court justices who voted in favor of New London took boatloads of mule fritters for their vote. Many States passed legistation so that couldn’t happen to their residents. Hmmm, I wonder how the development is going 4 years later?
Weeds, glass, bricks, pieces of pipe and shingle splinters have replaced the knot of aging homes at the site of the nation’s most notorious eminent domain project.
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.”
“They are getting what they deserve. They are going to get nothing,” said Susette Kelo, the lead plaintiff in the landmark property rights case. “I don’t think this is what the United States Supreme Court justices had in mind when they made this decision.”
Maybe those SCOTUS justices should be forced to drive up and see the result of their idiocy. Too bad there was no photo with the story. The AP does have a few sorta lame ones, though.
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Teach you also failed to mention the 60 million dollar Coast Guard Museum, that funding dried up also.