Attorneys offer update on Bonita Estero Rail Trail project

Author: Terry McDevitt, Gulfshore Business
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Earlier this month, two attorneys from St. Louis-based law firm Lewis Rice hosted meetings in Estero to update landowners on potential timing of federal action to secure land for the proposed Bonita Estero Rail Trail project.  

The proposed project hit a milestone in February when the Trust for Public Land secured a purchase and sale agreement for $82 million with the Seminole Gulf Railway on a 14.9-mile segment stretching from Alico Road to Collier County for conversion to a hiking and biking trail. 

Attorneys Lindsay Brinton and Meghan Largent from the federal takings and rails to trails practice at Lewis Rice met with a handful of landowners to discuss why and how a claim can be made against the federal government, timing, how landowners will be represented in pursuing their takings claims and how compensation will be determined. 

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