After attempts to negotiate voluntary sale agreements with landowners in a chunk of the downtown area were unsuccessful, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo’s city council gave unanimous approval Tuesday evening to begin the process of expropriating each of the properties.

The municipality has identified a handful of downtown properties that they will require in order to accommodate the construction of a new sports and entertainment complex, as well as some new road extensions to improve traffic.

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