If you’ve been in out of home long enough you’ll get a condemnation notice when a municipality or the state wishes to condemn and remove your billboard to widen a road or put in a new road. Condemnation revenues add up. On OUTFRONT Media’s first quarter 2026 conference call, CEO […]
Yesterday we ran a post by Sam Stokely of Stokely Outdoor asking for advice about condemnation issues in Oklahoma. Here are some of the comments we received. Out of home attorney Richard Hamlin of Hamlin|Cody says it’s important to engage a lawyer You should engage an attorney now! It does […]
Stokely Outdoor’s Sam Stokely is a busy man. He and two other employees run a billboard plant with 808 faces in Oklahoma. He’s also been involved in several billboard condemnations due to the widening of an interstate between Tulsa and Oklahoma City. Stokely gives the following tips on protecting your […]
Out of home appraiser Paul Wright estimates that there are 200-400 billboard condemnations in the US each year. If you are in business long enough, your out of home company will receive a letter from a state transportation authority notifying you that they are condemning the land on which your […]
