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Article: Landgrabs under assault; Supreme Court ruling could change the rules for eminent domain; Columbia, Nets, West Side plans endangered.(Special Report: Commercial Real Estate)
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- Crain's New York Business
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- January 17, 2005
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Byline: andrew marks
When anne whitman saw columbia University's model for its planned campus extension into West Harlem at a community meeting last spring, she was more than a little shocked. The school's first project, and the centerpiece of its proposal, was a building on Broadway and West 129th Street housing a biotechnology research facility. It wasn't Columbia's desire to build a science center in Manhattanville that surprised Ms. Whitman, the owner of moving company Hudson North American, but its location.
"My business is right where their front door is,'' she says.
The fact that she'd already told Columbia representatives she wasn't ...