The Auburn Industrial Development Agency (“AIDA”) has unanimously rejected a proposal to use its power of eminent domain for a developer’s hotel project. Four businesses own property in the space where Syracuse-based developer Pioneer Companies wants to build an 88-room hotel. The developer reached agreement with three of the property owners, and it was suggested that the AIDA should use its power of eminent domain to transfer the property of the fourth holdout property owner to the developer.
Read more about the board’s decision here.
The Florida Eminent Domain Blog 