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December 31, 2005
A five-week wait, a Times exclusive, and an unwelcome engineer: the strategy behind Forest City Ratner's demolition plans
TimesRatnerReport looks into the timing of the release of the Ratner engineering report and the NY Times exclusive covering the buildings that Ratner is planning to raze.
The main question TimesRatnerReport raises is, if the buildings are in danger of collapsing, then why did Ratner wait five weeks to announce demolition plans?
An analysis of the timeline reveals that not only are Ratner's actions suspicious, but statements by his main PR henchman Joe DePlasco contain blatant half-truths.
NoLandGrab: If this project is so great for Brooklyn, then why is Ratner going about it by any means necessary?
Posted by lumi at December 31, 2005 7:46 AM