Jerry Jones decided he needed more Arlington homes destroyed for added parking space for his new Dallas Cowboy stadium. So, Jerry Jones sent out someone to make offers to a number of homeowners. About a dozen, so far, have agreed to sell. Once the deals were made the deeds were transferred to a company run by Jerry Jones.The city of Arlington, stung by their notorious new reputation for being co-conspirators in the worst abuse of the concept of eminent domain in American history, refused to use eminent domain this time.
Jerry Jones minions have been very aggressive, harassing the holdouts relentlessly. Jerry Jones has now acquired enough new parking lot space that the holdouts will end up being an island surrounded by concrete. And football fans.
Holdouts have had their homes invaded and have had to chase surveyors off their property.
Meanwhile, there are many cases still being litigated from the original land grab. Apparently there is some principle along the lines of you can't start bulldozing until due process has been followed. Or whatever the right legalese is. But Jerry Jones unleashed his Army of Bulldozers in a Hitlerian Blitzkrieg while homeowners were still trying to fight their destruction by using the American court system, well, the American court system as practiced in Texas.
If the cases can get to a court outside of Texas jurisdiction it would seem there'd be a good chance that justice might finally be found and maybe ultimate justice might be attained and someone finds himself charged, arraigned, tried, convicted and behind bars. And the NFL changes its mind about playing a Super Bowl in a stadium so shamefully built on what amounts to being a graveyard of people's unfairly altered lives.
I wonder how actively those holdout's home invasions have been investigated?
The Stadium/Ballpark Wal-Mart is in the Glory Park zone? This I did not know. I doubt the Glory Park people would try to go against Wal-Mart in an eminent domain attempt. So far, I don't believe eminent domain has been used for Glory Park.
ReplyDeleteWalMart is not going to give up that land anytime soon and when they do they will get more than the market value for that property...I find it kind of odd that the day Hicks announces he cant get financing for the projct and it has been delayed that this guy is running around blabbing about GloryPark buying the land. Funny how a billionaire cant finance his own development.....I guess he is just trying to keep up with the Jonse's
ReplyDeleteBrad Buckner an employee for the GloryPark project said today that he has brokered the deal for GloryPark to purchase the Walmart across the street from the new stadium, I wonder if GloryPark paid full price for the land or was that too considered imminent domain?
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