Washington Union Station

[west point]

Judge rules in favor of Amtrak eminent domain for Amtrak to take over the lease of WASH US. This article is a little ambiguous saying Amtrak paid the $250M. Does this mean Amtrak will take over even if lease holder appeals?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/amtra ... c39a&ei=20

Now Amtrak can expand its station footprint and do some very needed repairs at various locations.

[John_Perkowski]

Wait for the appeals and injunctions. That train wreck is coming.

[STrRedWolf]

Paywalled article: https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/ ... omain.html

But after the jist we know about, I'll highlight the train wreck happening already:

Complicating matters still was a financial dispute between Ashkenazy(previous owners of the lease) and its lenders, which moved to foreclose on Ashkenazy's interest prior to Amtrak's eminent domain filing.

I would not be surprised that Ashkenazy wanted Amtrak to pay off the lenders, and Amtrak didn't want to mess with that.