{"id":1194963,"date":"2023-01-18T06:04:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T12:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1194963"},"modified":"2023-01-19T10:07:34","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T16:07:34","slug":"smith-county-approves-next-step-for-new-courthouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1194963","title":{"rendered":"Smith County approves next step for new courthouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1194964\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/smicocourthousenew-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TYLER &#8212; On Tuesday, the Smith County Commissioners Court voted to approve the eminent domain proceedings for two businesses on the east side of the square. According to our news partner KETK, Smith County hopes to acquire MJL Holdings at 206 and 214 East Erwin and Rodney Kamel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at 211 East Ferguson. Smith County Judge Neal Franklin explained this has been a work in progress for years. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been working for quite some time now, even multiple years for purchasing property on the east side of the square to build our new courthouse,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. Franklin is hopeful the two business will accept the final offer letter they sent out recently, so they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to move forward with the eminent domain.<!--more--> He also explained what the next step is if the business decides not to accept the offer. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It will go to another court, another judge, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll assign three special commissioners that their duty is only to say, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthis is how much this property is worth. This is the value of these properties. Then, we have to pay that value, and they have to give us the deed,&#8217;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Franklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; On Tuesday, the Smith County Commissioners Court voted to approve the eminent domain proceedings for two businesses on the east side of the square. According to our news partner KETK, Smith County hopes to acquire MJL Holdings at 206 and 214 East Erwin and Rodney Kamel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at 211 East Ferguson. Smith County Judge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1194963\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County approves next step for new courthouse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1194967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/smicocourthousenew-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County approves next step for new courthouse","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 10:35:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/01\/smicocourthousenew-150x150.png","fifu_image_alt":"Smith County approves next step for new courthouse","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1194963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1194966,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194963\/revisions\/1194966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1194963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1194963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1194963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}