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		dabockster on Jan 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Foxconn Is Reconsidering Plan for Manufacturing in... > they declared it blighted/contaminated Wtf? They could have just used eminent domain. Probably wouldn't have had to pay as much too.

mikeryan on Jan 30, 2019 [–]

Declaring a region blighted is a method for triggering eminent domain.

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/eminent-domain-can-we-defin...

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