City of Hartford v. CBV Parking Hartford, LLC

**203*409The plaintiff, the city of Hartford, exercised its power of eminent domain to take certain property owned by three defendants1 to advance the city's redevelopment plan that included the construction of a minor league baseball stadium in close proximity to the defendants' property. The defendants, believing that the compensation offered by the city did not account for the increased value and prospects for their property due to the planned ballpark, appealed from the statement of compensation filed by the city. The trial court sustained the appeal, increasing the amount of compensation…