Local TREND. 2 Ways Eminent Domain Hampers Economic Development.

Michigan use to allow local governments to assemble land, with eminent domain powers, for economic development deals. Not so after Kelo and it hurt Detroit’s ability to make a deal with Jeep.

With eminent domain, acquiring land would be:

• quicker
• cheaper
• makes rural and suburban areas more competitive for big economic development deals where land is easier to acquire

Detroit Free Press | Limits on Detroit’s use of eminent domain made Jeep deal much harder to do