I remember one of the first cases in my business law class was about immenent domain and how it was found that the government has no obligation to follow through with their reasoning for taking your land.

Pretty messed up.

Kelo v. New London is an (in)famous Supreme Court case holding that "public use" for eminent domain can include just handing the property over to private interests, on the theory that doing so could produce economic development.

The actual New London development fell through anyway and the area is just vacant. A large Pfizer presence nearby was a major reason behind the plan in the first place; in the wake of mergers and with the tax breaks that lured them there in the first place expiring, Pfizer pulled up stakes.

In Wisconsin, the corrupt-o-ticians don't use eminent domain. Too expensive.

They just declared all the farms to be "blighted", and then took them. It was pretty messed up.

If it's the site I think it is there were more cows than people displaced. (Not a Wisconsin joke)

Those cows likely represented the livelyhood of many residents.

Dozen of residents that sold their land.