Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of Kansas City v. Ridge

KENNEDY, Judge.

Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of Kansas City, Missouri, filed a petition to condemn for redevelopment purposes respondents’ “leased fee interest” in a parcel of ground in downtown Kansas City known as the Lakenan Tract, owned by respondents in various undivided interests. The tract underlies the building most recently occupied in part by Dillard’s Department Store, before that occupied by Macy’s and earlier yet by John Taylor Dry Goods Company. Respondents’ fee in the land is subject to a ground lease originally entered into by John Taylor Dry Goods Company in…