Corrado v. Providence Redevelopment Agency

This is one of several chapters — and hopefully one of the last — in the litigation between Samuel Corrado and his wife Dorothy, as plaintiffs, and the Providence Redevelopment Agency (redevelopment agency) and the treasurer of the city of Providence, as defendants. At the root of the litigation are the Corrados’ attempts to prevent the redevelopment agency from taking their property under the eminent domain power. A proper introduction to the current chapter requires at least a capsulized chronology of the significant prior proceedings.

In 1966 the Providence City Council adopted and approved…