Though Kelo and her neighbors lost, the case became one of the most contested in the high court’s history, and it sparked reform in the vast majority of the states. But the land where their homes once stood remains vacant, now a decade later. The city spent $78 million bulldozing the homes and preparing the area for development, but so far, all plans have fallen through. -Alex Anderson, Melissa Quinn Go To Site

Seized property sits vacant nine years after landmark Kelo eminent domain case

Nine years after the high court sided with a Connecticut municipality in Kelo v. City of New London, a ruling Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has likened to the court's disastrous Dred Scott decision, the 90-acre plot once earmarked for office buildings, luxury apartments and a new marina, remains vacant. Seven residents who fought all the way to the Supreme Court to keep their working-class homes in the city's Fort Trumbull section have only their memories and whatever remains of the money they were forced to accept.

Kelo decision a failure; CT site remains a dump - Washington Times

Government, Incompetence, Bigbrother

Should it be any surprise that six years after the horrible landmark Supreme Court's 2005 case Kelo v. City of New London, which brought about the decision that governments could seize private property for the sole reason of "economic development," the Fort Trumbull site in question is today a total dump, where "economic development" by the local government has ceased to ever happen?