The Inglewood City Council approved a plan this week to make way for a transit system, forcing dozens of businesses in the area to relocate.
Some 300 employees could be displaced by the project. Torion Newman worries her job at a beauty supply store will end if the business is forced to relocate.Sam Chung, of Inglewood Beauty Supply, made it clear to Eyewitness News that he doesn't want to relocate.
Chung argued the beauty supply business was the first of its kind three decades ago in the city. When he purchased it 14 years ago, he had planned to retire on the income from the business - until now.When asked whether the relocation plan qualifies as eminent domain, Inglewood Mayor James Butts replied: "Absolutely not. The only time eminent domain would be invoked is if the land owners didn't come to terms on the fair market value of the property.
"Business relocation is for businesses that are leasing space in any of the properties that would be acquired for the transit connector. That we would help to relocate them to another place, hopefully in Inglewood, and we'd pay those relocation costs, startup costs and what they lost during the transition," the mayor added.
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