Kanawha County officials have taken over the former Grand Palace Nightclub on Brooks Street after Circuit Judge Jennifer Bailey Walker signed the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority's eminent-domain order. "We have access to the property," said County Commission President Kent Carper. "We intend to raze it and turn it into a parking lot as soon as is practicable." Owner Hershel Layne won't contest the county's takeover but will demand to be paid more than the $145,000 that the county has proposed as a fair-market value, said Layne's lawyer, Mike Clifford. "We expected it," said Clifford, a former county prosecutor, of the eminent-domain order's approval. He said he would file papers with the court this week petitioning for a higher price, but he wouldn't disclose the price.