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Pfizer Leaves a Mess in Its Wake in New London
Eminent domain abuse always makes victims of people and then goes bust, victimizes
them again. And now in New London, Connecticut pharmecutical firm Pfizer, the
private partner in the "public-private
partnership" formed to spur "economic development" by eminent domain,
has left the scene and a mess in its wake.
From The Times:
Pfizer
to Leave City That Won Land-Use Case
Patrick McGeehan. The New York Times
From the edge of the Thames River in New London, Conn., Michael Cristofaro surveyed
the empty acres where his parents’ neighborhood had stood, before it became
the crux of an epic battle over eminent domain.
“Look what they did,” Mr. Cristofaro said on Thursday. “They stole our home
for economic development. It was all for Pfizer, and now they get up and walk
away.”
That sentiment has been echoing around New London since Monday, when Pfizer,
the giant drug company, announced it would leave the city just eight years after
its arrival led to a debate about urban redevelopment that rumbled through the
United States Supreme Court, and reset the boundaries for governments to seize
private land for commercial use.
Pfizer said it would pull 1,400 jobs out of New London within two years and
move most of them a few miles away to a campus it owns in Groton, Conn., as
a cost-cutting measure. It would leave behind the city’s biggest office complex
and an adjacent swath of barren land that was cleared of dozens of homes to
make room for a hotel, stores and condominiums that were never built.
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Pfzier is leaving, by the way, right around the time their ten year tax abatement
ends.
Posted: 11.13.09
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