Virgin Islands Housing & Redevelopment Authority v. 19.1078 Acres of Land

The Virgin Islands Housing and Redevelopment Authority, a public corporation created by the Gordon-Jacobs Housing and. Redevelopment Authority Law of 1950 and continued by. 29 V.I.C. § 31 et seq., with power within its area of operation to prepare, carry out, acquire, lease and operate housing projects, has brought this action to take *312by the power of eminent domain 19.1078 acres of land in New Quarter on the island of St. Thomas, being a portion of Estate Thomas, for use in constructing a low income housing project thereon. Under 29 V.I.C. § 85(14) the Authority has the right to acquire real…