WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
City Threatens Seizure Of Middle
Class Homes To Build ...High-End Ritzy Mall
Written by: www.offthegridnews.com/
Daniel Jennings Current Events September 19, 2015
An entire
working class neighborhood could be removed by eminent domain and replaced with
a $200 million high-end outlet mall if city officials in West Haven, Connecticut,
get their way.
Family homes
and small businesses would be among the structures seized and torn down to make
way for luxury shops, hotels and restaurants to be built by wealthy developers
Sheldon Gordon and Ty Miller.
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Connecticut Homeowners Fight to Prevent
City From Taking Their Homes for Redevelopment
Daily Signal Melissa
Quinn / @MelissaQuinn97 /
September 16, 2015 / 80 comments
Every day,
Janet Rodriguez sits at her home in West
Haven, Conn., and she
waits.
She waits
for a knock at her front door, a knock she fears will bring news that Rodriguez
and her family will be forced to leave the home they’ve lived in for nearly a
decade. A knock that means the city has exhausted its efforts to negotiate with
Rodriguez and her family and is moving to condemn their house to make way for a
$200-million high-end mall.
Rodriguez,
along with her neighbors on First Avenue, is fighting the city of West Haven to keep her
home. But still, every day, she waits.
Continue reading at ….http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/16/connecticut-homeowners-fight-to-prevent-city-from-taking-their-homes-for-redevelopment/