Only without the attractive plaintiffs, which is why this probably won't get the attention it deserves. From the Denver Business Journal (paid subscription required):
The University of Colorado still is wading through a legal morass at its Ninth Avenue and Colorado Boulevard campus that must be resolved before a major in-town retail and residential project can move forward..CU, which is moving its Health Sciences Center to its new campus at Fitzsimons in Aurora, is using eminent domain powers to condemn a portion of the land at Ninth and Colorado. Condemnation may be necessary to clear the title to part of the 32-acre campus before it can be sold to Shea Properties, which has been chosen to develop the site east of downtown Denver.
The Bonfils family donated the land at 9th and Colorado on the condition that it be used for health or medical purposes. Now that the multiple hospitals there are relocating to the old Fitzsimmons Army base, that land is supposed to be redeveloped. Whatever you may say about the residential/retail complex - and it's probably going to be very nice - it's not medical or health purposes. So the Bonfils family is negotiating for fair value for their land.
But CU can use eminent domain to take the land if they want. This is exactly the Kelo situation, except that the people who are losing the land aren't middle-class families born in their homes, but a relatively wealthy trust. This should, of course, make absolutely no difference. And it's supposed to be prohibited by statute, right former Governor Owens? Which is why you didn't press for a state Constitutional amendment to prevent this sort of wealth transfer, right, former Governor Owens?
Someone needs to ask Governor Ritter and Attorney General Suthgers whether the state has the right to condemn private property and turn it over for private development.
The answer is supposed to be, "no."