...and after bulldozing the neighborhood, lost their funding, avandoned the project, and turned the neighborhood into a literal dump.
Wow! What a grossly offensive thing for the courts to support, regardless of the fact the outcome was a net negative.
Thanks for posting that. I had not heard of that particular case.
There isn't much written about the neighbourhood...
But looking at the New London wiki page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London,_Connecticut , there's some interesting demographic info.
In 2000 New London had 25,671 people and was 18.64% black. In 2010 the population was 27,620 and in 2006-2008 14.0% black.
So, using some rough math, there were 900 fewer black people in New London after Kelo. Makes you wonder if the Phizer lab was the goal.
And urban blacks (and many urban people, period) are often poor. A business might want cheap land to create a suburban work area. Prices go up, poor people move out. It doesn't have to be racial.