I thought it was only communist countries that take property that belongs to private owners.
It's for the greater good. It's for higher education. Don't want to sell? Fine. Arizona will take your property. Your concerns about expenses, so what? ASU will not tear it down. It will go to some ombudsman or college president who will fill the home with his presence, artefacts, and family in some last-minute historical preservation bid that ASU and Arizona didn't see or recognize at the time of the purchase.
Arizona State University filed to use eminent domain to steal a 124 year old Phoenix home from a senior homeowner
— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) June 10, 2026
The man who owns it is a 89 year old senior citizen who’s owned the home for 50 years
ASU says they need the land for their downtown health campus
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ASU offered this guy $850,000 but he keeps denying them because he says it's just too expensive to move and it's unrealistic due to the high cost of relocation.
But there's another issue here that's being ignored and that's the significance of this home. It's one of the last surviving pre-statehood residential buildings in Central Phoenix. That means it's older than Arizona itself which got statehood in 1912. So this has a huge historical significance. It's been on the Phoenix Historic Property Register since 1990, and they want to tear it down to build a medical facility?
