The city of Troy, Michigan found itself in a similar situation when it built a new transportation center on land it didn't own.
The city had entered into a consent agreement with a developer, who was allowed to build a major development in exchange for a piece of property on which they would build the transportation center. The catch was the city had to get the center funded within the next ten years. Years went by and finally there was funding, but the current tea party-dominated city council and tea party mayor turned down federal funding for the center. This ended up with a recall election and a new mayor, so the center was finally funded and built. Meanwhile the ten years had elapsed and the developer wanted its land back. The city went to court to take the property via eminent domain and lost. In the end, it cost the city a little over a million bucks to buy the land it had originally got for free.
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