Leave the Black Cloud around long enough....

The following quote was taken from the article linked/described below:

"Today, Prospect Heights finally shows what the state and city governments want everyone to see: decay. The decay, though, isn’t the work of callous markets that left the neighborhood to perish. It’s the work of a developer wielding state power to press property owners to sell their land “voluntarily.” It’s also the result of a half-decade’s worth of government-created uncertainty, which stopped genuine private investment in its tracks.”
The following link will take you to the rest of the article, an interesting opinion piece on the misuse of eminent domain.  This article centers on local governments seizing land for commercial development; so, there are obvious differences between the cases discussed in this article and the circumstances surrounding the PCMS.  However, there are some real parallels.  In reality, the City of Colorado Springs, and El Paso County are behaving in the same way, and have the same motivations as the local government(s) in this article – economic development.  Colorado Springs may say the right thing, claiming that the most important reason for expansion is to properly train our troops, but in reality, their real motivation is the economic growth of their city.  Just because a private developer isn’t trying to take S.E. Colorado, and the U.S. Army is, does not change this motivation.

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_eminent-domain-abuse.html