.@ASU wants to use eminent domain to bulldoze the Louis Emerson House — a historic Phoenix home owned by 89-year-old Robert Young, who has preserved it for more than 50 years. For what? Not a classroom, a hospital, or a lab. For “open space.” ASU’s own filing shows the medical campus can be built without putting a building on Mr. Young’s property. So this isn’t necessity. It's ASU flexing its outsized influence and power in order to further its aesthetic desires. Eminent domain should never be used as a weapon to erase an elderly man’s legacy for a taxpayer-funded landscaping preference. We have asked ASU and its Board of Regents to withdraw the condemnation action and preserve the Louis Emerson House. Read @A1Policy's letter here.