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[Ian Meyer <ianmeyer AT gmail.com>]

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That actually happened in Japan, when they were building the Tokyo  
Narita airport, they had to buy out many small landowners and farmers  
to build. There was one old man who refused to sell, even as the  
offers got larger and larger. So they built the airport around him. A  
few years later, after he died, his family sold the land to the  
airport, and they filled in the hole.*

*disclaimer: i don't know if its really true or not, i heard it  
several years ago from someone @ NWA, we were touring their ops  
center at MSP, and there were arial photos of the major hubs along  
the wall and someone commented on the square of land in the middle of  
the airport... *shrug*

~ian


On Jun 29, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Greg Brown wrote:

> I remember that beer commercial from the early 80s.. something about
> two brothers owning a bar that had been in the family forever.
> Someone wanted to put a big building up and they refused to sell, so
> they built the building around the bar.  Now, I guess, that kind of
> thing wouldn't happen in many states.
>
> On thing though: from the way I read the court ruling the land has to
> be seized for "joint public/private development".   Granted, this kind
> of development is just about every kind that involves a city or town
> council, even at a basic level of involvement.
>
> I'd say I guess my retirement home will be in the swamps of Florida
> but Disney might level my shack for another roller-coaster.  Whoopie.
>
> Greg
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