DailyHeights

"…the latest skirmish began on Nov. 29 at a community meeting. James
Stuckey, an executive vice president at Mr. Ratner’s firm, Forest City
Ratner, was explaining the process of eminent domain…"

"… asking the state to obtain
property for them as a last resort … Mr. Stuckey said, would involve declaring properties in
the proposed arena footprint "blighted." The word drew jeers from
members of the audience, the newspaper reported, including one woman
who yelled back, ‘You’re blighted!’"

"’I don’t know if one is allowed to make a counter-blight argument,’ she
said, ‘but it could be made for everything that Ratner has built around
here thus far.’"