Five weeks after suing, ASU withdrew its eminent domain case against the 1902 Louis Emerson House on July 17. The house will stay standing, and ASU says it will revise plans for its $200 million medical school site.
With Board of Regents approval, ASU filed an eminent domain suit to take the 1902 Louis Emerson House, the last parcel it wanted for a new medical school campus. The 89-year-old owner rejected offers of $190,000 and later $999,000, saying neither would cover moving the house, and a petition to save it began circulating.