Troy, Michigan is considering condemning property occupied by its newly built transit center if a deal to buy the land can’t be reached after the state Supreme Court refused to consider an appeal by the city.
The City of Troy built a Transit Center on land, that has been ruled by a court of law, they don't own.
The City of Troy built a Transit Center on land, that has been ruled by a court of law, they don't own.
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| Troy Transit Center |
The city of Troy has offered to buy the land for $550,000, one of few options left in its legal fight with developer Grand Sakwa Properties.
A state Supreme Court issued a ruling Tuesday declining to hear the case involving the city and the Farmington Hills-based Grand Sakwa, which donated the land to the city with the condition the city secure funding for the transit center by 2010.
A court ruling in May said the city failed to meet that June 2010 deadline, so ownership of the land reverted to Grand Sakwa. The city sued to retain rights to the land, which was resolved in the state Supreme Court decision.
The $6.3 million multi-modal transit center sits on the border between Troy and Birmingham in the back of a shopping center developed by Grand Sakwa.
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| Former Troy Mayor, Janice Daniels |
On Monday, the Troy City Council voted to offer Grand Sakwa $550,000 for the property, Grigg Bluhm said. If the offer isn’t accepted, the city could vote to authorize condemnation of the property, she said.
Troy partnered with Birmingham on the transit project in 2000 when Grand Sakwa donated the land with the conditions.
The center, which figured in the recall of former Mayor Janice Daniels last year, was funded by a federal grant.
The transit center became one of the most controversial issues during Daniels' one-year stint as mayor. She led a majority on the City Council that rejected $8.4 million in federal funding for the project in late 2011; a slimmed-down version of the project won council approval in January 2012.
The 28,000-square-foot facility replaces the Amtrak station off Michigan Avenue. Birmingham, which has a free-standing bus enclosure at the Amtrak rail station, left the project in April 2011 after talks to buy land next to the CN Railway tracks failed.
I believe, Troy, Michigan always going take this land, business plan, Troy does something wrong, use-ing the people's money, in defense. to defend a wrong. This's really a very old inter city-fight,. Between City retirees front group Troy Residents United for a Strong Troy, just a front for liberals, UNIONS and progressives groups, VS normal Troyites various Ideas . TroY has the honor of Self auditing,< Hired the retired Auditor, that was always their auditor. so ever Troy needs money, invents a problem, took 3 votes, 2 years of scare-ing people>>special library only TAX, which frees more money, to attack, normal
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