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August 22, 2005
In the Fall, Look Out for More Conflict on Park, Atlantic Yards
This from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle's late-summer wrap up of Brooklyn development deals:
Before mid-September, a deal will probably be cut between the MTA and Forest City Ratner to wrap up the sale of the Yards property. Sometime, probably by October, the state will have to host a scoping meeting for the preparation of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
More than usual, this will be an important session because it will give one and all, and there are a good many of them, to try to influence the content and character of this important document. People should pay important attention the number of housing units and the kind of buildings planned for this project. The density and scale of this part of the project is the key element, not the arena, nor one or two office buildings. The use of eminent domain is really a sideshow, and going to court over this issue cannot stop the heart of the project.
Contestants will be able to look quite judicial on this issue and the temptation will be present, but the project, if need be, can be built around the slivers that Forest City does not control. This issue is moon-looking.
NoLandGrab: "Moon-looking?" Is it just the heat? The full moon? Or has Dennis Holt stopped making sense?
Posted by lumi at August 22, 2005 10:17 PM