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September 27, 2005
Ridge Hill Village Update
The Journal News
All reports by Michael Gannon
Forest City Ratner has been making a big push to close the deal on the final approvals for zoning changes for their controversial Ridge Hill Project in Yonkers.
Yesterday it was reported that FCR hired Michael Spano, a former Republican assemblyman and Yonkers mayoral candidate, "brother of powerful state Sen. Nicholas Spano, R-Yonkers," to lobby the City Council who is to vote today (see, "Michael Spano lobbies for project in Yonkers").
Today's report that the NY State Department of Transportation rejected the traffic mitigation plan for the project, located between the Sprain Parkway and NY State Throughway might put the entire project on hold (see, "State spurns Sprain solution to Ridge Hill").
NoLandGrab: Just when you think something is a done deal we find that Ratner is still having difficulty getting final approvals on a project that does not use eminent domain and has already been apprpoved by the Public Authorities Control Board.
Posted by lumi at September 27, 2005 9:33 AM