In City of Hopewell v. Shree Arihant Motel, Inc., No. 251193 (Va. July 16, 2026), the Virginia Supreme Court held that a municipality which demolished an abandoned shopping center by burning it down is immune from the owner’s tort and statutory claims, though the city allegedly failed to comply with the procedures governing blight abatement. The owner’s inverse condemnation claim survived, however, because…