Legal Opinion
Department of Transportation v. First Place, LLC
Colorado Court of Appeals
Decided June 29, 2006No. 04CA2263PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDailey, J.
In this eminent domain case, petitioners, Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), City of Black Hawk, and Silver
Dollar Metropolitan District, appeal the trial court’s judgment awarding respondent, First Place, LLC, $4,057,013 in damages for 1.01 acres of property taken to expand a state highway. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.
The property is, for the most part, steep mountainous terrain, located just north of state highway 119 (SH 119) in Black Hawk. First Place had purchased the property in 1999 from Gilpin County. In 2001, CDOT decided to widen SH 119 northward and…
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