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May 16, 2005

Forest City Announces Milestones at Four Open-Air Regional Lifestyle Center Developments Totaling 3.2 Million Square Feet

Business Wire

Apparently "DEVELOPMENT" is now a dirty word and requires a euphemism. Though Forest City Ratner uses the gemütlich-sounding "village" to describe their controversial development project in Yonkers, the mothership, Forest City Enterprises, prefers "Open-Air Regional Lifestyle Center." Give us a break!

If we are going to lap up Orwellian doublespeak, how about, "Live, Work, Play" at the Brooklyn's new "Metropolitian Mixed-Use Empowerment Nexus?"

press release

Posted by lumi at May 16, 2005 6:26 AM