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January 10, 2006
Wall Street Project, Request for Coverage
A media release for Reverend Jesse Jackson's Wall Street Project is promoting today's panel discussion, featuring Ratner's Community Benefits Agreement, the one "negotiated" by supporters of the project and groups supported by Ratner.
Reverend Jesse Jackson, Apprentice star Kwame T. Jackson, Jim Stuckey, executive vice president, Forest City Ratner Companies, and Cheryl McKissack Felder, president and CEO of the McKissack Group, headline a special panel entitled "Real Estate Development in the 21st Century: Revisiting Opportunities for Minority Developers," as part of Rev. Jesse Jackson's 9th Annual "Wall Street Project" Economic Summit on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., in the Empire West Ballroom on the second floor of the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, 811 Seventh Avenue, Manhattan.
Panelists will discuss new opportunities for minority firms, which have been traditionally marginalized in real estate development projects. Kwame Jackson will moderate the panel, which will also talk about trends in the real estate development field and how they affect minority firms.
NoLandGrab: Who wants to bet that eminent domain won't be discussed by today's panel?
It's ironic that the Wall Street Project, founded on the anniversary of Martin Luther King's birthday, is promoting the Atlantic Yards Community Benefits Agreement, when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (founded by Dr. King in 1957) filed a friend of the court brief last year in support of the homeowners in the eminent domain case of Kelo v. New London.
Posted by lumi at January 10, 2006 6:13 AM