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Article: Skyland center plans threaten couple's dream.(METROPOLITAN)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 13, 2004
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Byline: Tom Knott, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Joseph and Rose Rumber are confronted with the unsettling prospect of being put on the streets by a city's political structure that has been tone-deaf to the pleas of its hardworking constituents.
The husband-and-wife proprietors of Skyland Liquors will have nowhere to go if the city forges ahead with its heavy-handed plans to raze the Skyland Shopping Center in Southeast.
Last week, the D.C. Council voted unanimously in favor of the city invoking eminent domain over the 16.5-acre complex that has been fully leased the past five years and serves a forgotten community along Alabama Avenue and Good Hope and ...