{"id":807,"date":"2007-11-23T14:18:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T19:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2007\/11\/23\/small-home-owner-fights-big-developers\/"},"modified":"2008-01-30T20:39:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T01:39:01","slug":"small-home-owner-fights-big-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2007\/11\/23\/small-home-owner-fights-big-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Small home owner fights big developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p> We&#8217;ve all heard stories about home owners who refuse to sell when big commercial projects are planned to be built around their property &#8230; well 86 year old Edith Macefield is another property owner who refused to move from her home when developers from Seattle decided to build a commercial property in her neighborhood.<\/p>\n<div style=\u00e2\u20ac\u009ddisplay:block;float:left;padding:5px;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d><!--adsense#content_referal200x200--><\/div>\n<p>Macefield refused an offer of 1 million dollars to move.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>They&#8217;ve decided to go ahead with their project and her home will have a five story construction project around and beside her home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to move. 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