Case Results

The following cases were handled by one or more the attorneys and firms associated with SC Takings. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes in future cases as each case is unique and must be evaluated independently.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

Offered $212,400 – Resolved for $1,800,000.   Assisted landowner with an undeveloped, ±17-acre commercial tract alongside the interstate that had an acre taken for a road widening project along with access changes that diminished the property’s value.

Offered $32,500 – Resolved for $602,500.  Assisted Big-Box retailer after utility company installed high-voltage electrical transmission lines alongside the side of the store.

Offered $301,700 – Resolved for $1,425,000.  Assisted developer with a “highest and best use” dispute where large tract of fully-entitled raw land was marketable as industrial park, not farm land.  

Offered $25,000 – Resolved for $245,800.  Assisted gas station and convenience store owner whose property lost full access as part of a road realignment project.

Offered $84,700 – Resolved for $250,000.  Assisted marina owner whose property lost slip and trailer rental spaces due to road widening project.

Offered $2,739,200 – Resolved for $4,000,000.  Assisted national self-storage company where a decades-old legal agreement affected how to value the total acquisition of a self-storage facility.

Offered $38,400 – Resolved for $120,000.  Assisted church in a road widening condemnation where local government did not make an offer based on the “highest and best use” of the property.

Offered $450,000 – Resolved for $625,000.  Assisted Car Wash Operator whose entire property was taken for road realignment project.

Offered $654,400 – Resolved for $825,000.  Assisted publicly traded national building supply company that lost land and a warehouse along a major interstate highway.

Offered $27,750 – Resolved for $250,000.  Assisted land developer where condemnation strip-take negatively impacted site access and threatened to derail an existing contract for sale.  We helped preserve the contract for sale and negotiated for appropriate damages.

Offered $2,352,000 – Resolved for $2,800,000.  Assisted gas station and convenience store owner whose entire property was taken for interchange realignment project.

Offered $170,000 – Resolved for $312,500.  Assisted homeowner who ran family business from hybrid residential-commercial property that was totally-taken as a result of road widening project.

Offered $495,000 – Resolved for $1,150,000.  Assisted rural landowner where the government agency improperly cleared trees beyond the right of way limits and rendered commercial access to the property impossible due to road grade changes.

Offered $1,200 – Resolved for $7,334.  Construction of utility company’s underground easement resulted in loss of trees and aesthetic damages to homeowner’s view.

Offered $500,000 – Resolved for $763,842.  Changes in access to gas station and convenience following road project diminished the value of the property.

Offered $140,500 – Resolved for $475,000.  Assisted business owner when changes in access and reduced parking diminished value of restaurant.

Offered $147,300 – Resolved for $223,000.  Assisted nonprofit organization who lost land and one of their driveways following a road widening project. 

Offered $859,875 – Resolved for $1,220,000.  Assisted rural gas station owner when roadway widening took away access to and from the store. Secured agreement to change project plans preserve commercial access for an adjacent property also owned by Landowner.  

Offered $56,247 – Resolved for $600,000.  Assisted owner of pharmacy building where roundabout installed near the property negatively affected access to and the value of the property.

Offered $1,402,800 and $448,500 – Resolved for $2,450,000.  Assisted family whose two long-held adjoining properties were partially taken by the government as part of roadway project. Showed the worth of the properties was greater when valued together, and preserved agricultural tax exemptions for the clients after the project was completed.

Offered $124,800 – Resolved for $282,000.  Assisted owner of property along interstate leased for billboards that was entirely taken by widening project.  

Offered $25,400 – Resolved for $250,000.  Assisted gas station and convenience store operator with road widening strip take that impacted customer access to the site.

Offered $493,500 – Resolved for $800,000.  Assisted owners of longtime family residence along developing highway where taking left the property with limited utility and use for the family. 

Offered $139,600 – Resolved for $280,000.  Assisted restaurant owner with taking that impacted parking, access and proximity to adjacent roads.   

Offered $46,500 – Resolved $575,000.  Assisted apartment complex owner navigate a taking that expanded an interstate resulting in noise, site, and proximity impacts.

Offered $52,418.32 – Resolved for $126,000.  Assisted rural landowners where utility company installed overhead power lines near the back of a pasture but did not account for the impact on the future development plans for the property.