<br/><small><a href=”http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&vpsrc=6&ll=38.889404,-77.083388&spn=0.000835,0.001068&z=18&source=embed” style=”color:#0000FF;text-align:left”>View Larger Map</a></small></div> <span class=”BodyCopy”>A Courthouse Plaza office building that Arlington County officials have been eyeing for years is on the market, and county officials say that if they can’t agree with its owners on a price, they’ll consider seizing the building under eminent domain.</span> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>Eminent domain, the government practice of seizing private property for public uses like schools or roads, is a rarely used tactic for the county, officials say. But the county is willing to use it if officials can’t reach an agreement with the owners of the seven-story office building at 2020 14th St. N., which the county wants to use as a homeless shelter.</span></p> <p><span class=”BodyCopy”>County Manager Barbara Donnellan said the building’s asking price is “a couple million” above the county’s estimated value of $25.5 million, and the county is hoping to convince the building’s Toronto-based owners, Breof Thomas Reo, to lower it.</span></p> <table style=”float: right; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: aliceblue; padding: 5px 0pt; margin: 5px 15px 5px 0pt; width: 277px; font-family: arial; font-size: 11px; line-height: 12px; border: 1px solid rgb(239, 225, 171); box-shadow: 5px 5px 5px rgb(204, 204, 204); height: 56px;” border=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″><tbody><tr style=”font-size:14px;line-height:15px;color:darkred;”><td><strong/><strong> </strong><strong>Related story<br/></strong></td> </tr><tr style=”font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;”><td> <li><a style=” font-weight: normal;” href=”https://wexwpdev.washingtonexaminer.com/local/virginia/2011/11/va-legislators-seek-limit-taking-private-land”><span style=”font-weight: bold;”>Va. legislators seek to limit taking of private land</span></a><br/></li> </td> </tr></tbody></table>
