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In less than a week, two capital cities are preparing to use eminent domain to build professional sports stadiums. Talk about foul play. The Sacramento city council voted 7-2 on August 13 to help the Sacramento Kings negotiate with the owner of a Macy's. As theSacramento Beepoints out,"The city's involvement in the talks carries with it a key negotiating tool: the threat of seizing control of the property through eminent domain." That Macy's Men Store is the last property the Kings have yet to acquire for the arena and may be condemned if negotiations fail. But just because they're called the Kings doesn't mean they should have the right to seizepeasantspeople's land. Construction hasn't even begun and the Kings are alreadycorporate welfare queens: the city council has voted to provide the arena $258 million in public funding. Unfortunately, sports subsidies areincreasingly common. Over in Washington, D.C., officials are prepared to authorize eminent domain to build a new stadium for the DC United,the worst team in Major League Soccer. This 20,000 seat stadium is expected to cost $300 million, with half of that comingout of the taxpayers' pockets. Yet the team sold for$50 millionin 2012. In other words, the United will be getting a brand new stadium that's worth six times as much as the team itself. The final property at the proposed location in Buzzard Point isSuper Salvage, D.C.'s last remaining salvage yard. According to Super Salvage's Chief Financial Officer Bob Bullock,"nobody from the D.C. government has been in touch with us." In fact, the company first learned their property could be taken from the press. The yard is currently valued at$7.5 million. Super Salvage is hesitant to relocate, since there aren't exactly many other places in the District for a salvage yard business. While there has been somecontroversyover who precisely owns that parcel,"ultimately the city will exercise eminent domain to acquire any pieces we can't acquire,"City Administrator Allen Lew said in an interview withCity Paper. Unfortunately, this is just the latest in D.C.'s long, ignoble history of abusing eminent domain. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court inBerman v. Parkerupheld the District of Columbia forcibly removing 5,000 working-class African-Americans from their homes for "urban renewal." As David Beito and Ilya Somin note,"Bermanenabled the massive urban renewal condemnations of later decades...Some 3 to 4 million Americans, most of them ethnic minorities, have been forcibly displaced from their homes as a result of urban renewal takings since World War II." More recently, DC received$28 million in federal subsidies to seize 18 acres of businessesfor a new mall. That mall will house hundreds of condos and possibly aWal-Martwhen it's finished in 2016. In fact, this DC United stadium isn't even the first time the District has condemned private property for its sports teams. Back in 2005,16 properties were takenby the city to build a new stadium for the Washington Nationals. Alas, Sacramento and Washington, DC are not alone in seizing for sport. In 2009, New York's highest court upheldcondemning 50 propertiesto make way for a new basketball arena for the Brooklyn Nets. Down in Arlington, Tex. during the 90s, George W. Bush even profited from eminent domain for sports stadiums, turning hisinitial investment of $600,000 into a cool $15 millionwhen the Texas Rangers were sold in 1998. Daniel McGraw elaborates inReason:The team "convinced local voters to approve a 1991 tax increase that helped build a new $191 million stadium. The city of Arlington used eminent domain to acquire the property from hundreds of private owners, claiming that the stadium was a 'public use,' just like highways, schools, or government buildings...But it has produced little of the promised economic benefit to Arlington, and there has never been a real 'public use' factor aside from baseball fans' paying their money to see games." Taking private property to benefit multimillion dollar professional sports teams demonstrates just how elastic "public use" has become. Nick Sibilla Nick Sibilla works at IJ as a Maffucci Fellow. A team of investors led by soccer player David Beckham may be granted permission to construct a newmajor league soccer stadium in Miami, regardless of the human toll. Before the construction of the soccer stadium begins, the city of Miami will have to acquire acres of land in the middle of Miami. To get the land, Miami City Manager Daniel Alfonsostatedthat the city could either purchase the land from the owners, or if the owners don't want to sell, the city may just take the land through eminent domain. To make way for Beckham's stadium,a daycare center, several houses, and an entire apartment building would have to be razed. One resident, 70-year-old Adelfa Lopez, will likely be forced to move after living in her home for almost four decades. The city of Miami did not even bother to tell its residents that they may lose their homesthe residents first learned about the completed plans for the stadium and the city's intentions to use eminent domain through the local Miami media. There's something wrong with this picture. And it's not just the boondoggle public financing of stadiumstake a look atthis video by Reason TVfor that angle. We're talking about the radical seizure of private property through the use of eminent domain for these mega projects. If baseball is America's pastime, stealing land for sports teams is a favorite pastime of America's city governments. Here's a list of some of the worst examples of seizing for sport. Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta, GA This project included the demolition of two churches, one of whichthe Friendship Baptist churchwasAtlanta's oldest African-American Baptist church. Six property owners resisted the Georgia World Congress Center Authority'stakeover. But the GWCCC made it very clear that eminent domain lay at the end of the road if "negotiations" were not successful. Ultimately,that threatwas enough to force five of the six property owners to accept the city's "deal" and walk away. The last property, which had been passed down in theowner's family since 1902, was eventually taken through eminent domain. Petco Park, San Diego Padres, San Diego, CA Thisdog of a projectin San Diego required a substantial amount of land. When property owners refused to sell, San Diego's Centre City Development Corporation filed56 eminent domain actionsin just the first phase of land acquisition. The projectclosed warehouses and left dozens of produce distributors and merchants jobless. Golden 1 Center, Sacramento Kings, Sacramento, CA The new stadium for the Sacramento Kings wouldn't be withouteminent domain. When the owners of a Macy's department store refused to settle on the value of their property, the city razed the building, and then negotiated over the "fair-market" value. Nationals Stadium, Washington Nationals, Washington D.C. Eminent domain is alive and well in the nation's capital. To bring the Nationals to town, the District seized property from 16 owners in Southeast D.C. After condemnation papers were filed, property owners were given only 90 days to vacate their property. Patricia Ghiglino, who owned an art studio in the area,lamented, "I've cried so many days since this first came up [....] It was very, very personal to me. We created the center. I worked 60 to 90 hours a week here, on Saturdays and Sundays. This became not just a business but also my home." Global Life Park in Arlington, Texas Rangers, Arlington TX The city of Arlington used eminent domain to obtain 13 acres for the Rangers Ballparkin 1991. One investor, George W. Bush, transformed his initial $606,302 investment into $14.9 million when the team changed hands in 1998. That's quite a profit for someone whocampaigned for private property rights in 1994. AT&T Stadium, Dallas Cowboys, Arlington, TX. Also in Arlington, former Mayor Robert Cluck acquired 162 properties on approximately 134 acres for the Cowboys. When some property owners refused to make way, America's Team simply asked the city to useeminent domainto condemn and then take over the land. Tenants, homeowners, and small business owners found their lives turned upside down to benefit yet another privately-owned sports team. Kansas City Speedway, Kansas City, KS. To build the NASCAR Kansas International Speedway, Wyandotte County in Kansas condemned the properties of165 separate owners. The condemned neighborhood contained beautiful Victorian-era houses and family-owned small businesses. This 1,200-acre project irrevocably changed the Kansas City community while NASCAR reaped the economic benefits. Barclays Center, Brooklyn Nets, Brooklyn, NY New York isone of only six statesthat have utterly failed to pass eminent domain reform in the ten years since the Supreme Court opened the floodgates of abuse through its infamous Kelo v. City of New London ruling. So when the Nets moved from New Jersey to Brooklyn, big developers and the Big Apple built them a big arena and surrounding private developmentat a big cost. Protest groups likeDevelopDon't Destroy Brooklynunsuccessfully tried to halt the 8 million-square-foot megaproject that demolished local homes and businesses. Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles, CA Eminent domain abuse for sports stadium is no recent fad. The "Battle of Chavez Ravine" was fought in the 1950s. The entire Mexican-American community in Chavez Ravine, which had thrived in the L.A. neighborhood for generations, was removed over a ten-year period to make way for the proposed construction of public housing. The entire community was torn apart as part of this "urban renewal" effort. However, after taking over ownership of the properties, the Los Angeles city government instead decided to construct the 56,000-seat Dodger Stadium on the recently cleared land.Civic Arena, Pittsburgh, PA The recently closed Civic Arena tops the list of sport-related eminent domain abuses. Before the construction of Pittsburgh's Civic Arena in the late 1950's,the Hill District was one of Pittsburgh's most historic neighborhoods. The local area was a central point along the Underground Railroad and contained numerous jazz clubs. The District was a culturally diverse community complete with churches, businesses, and schools. However, in the name of economic development, the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh declared the entire Hill Districted as blighted and began the demolition of the community in 1957. In all,400 businesseswere shuttered,1,300 buildingswere destroyed and8,000 peoplewere forcibly removed. The Institute for Justice has repeatedly argued that eminent domain abuse disproportionatelyimpacts vulnerable populationsincluding minorities, the elderly, and low-income residents. And this is exactly what happened in Pittsburgh when thousands of African-Americans were forced to relocate to segregated housing projects on the outskirts of the city. Construction of the Civic Arena began in 1958, with Mayor David Lawrenceproclaiming, "It will be heralded the length and breadth of the world. This auditorium will stand as a symbol of an era here." Indeed. A symbol of public power for private gain. David Sandefer