Lower Merion School District has voted to condemn two properties in Villanova – a 10.4-acre parcel at 1835 County Line Road and three acres at 1800 W. Montgomery Ave. – and spend a total of $12.92 million on acquiring them.
The school district said it was exercising its right of eminent domain to acquire the two properties for the construction of future athletic fields and in a move to thwart Villanova University from buying them. The owners of the two properties had been in negotiations with…