While the ground rules still are being set for major redevelopment in Wheaton, Montgomery County is moving ahead with plans to demolish a building to make way for a sidewalk project that has been more than a decade in the making.

But the county acquired the building by invoking its rights to eminent domain, which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year allows municipalities to force private property owners to sell if officials decide a new project would benefit the public.

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