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July 26, 2006
Dope slap
Nothing will earn ya a dope slap like greasing the wheels for wealthy sports team owners.
Today Dope on the Slope offers this image of the Newswalk watertower (which is enveloped by Ratner's plan footprint) then puts the squeeze on H.O.M.E.P.L.A.T.E. and overdevloper-slash-eminent-domain-abuser Bruce Ratner.
The city government that brought you Developer Entitlement Zones is eagerly promoting another fine product to deliver maximum value for your tax dollar. Among the social workers in city government who work tirelessly to assist underprivileged elites, it's known as Handing Out Money to Empower Professional Lobbyists And Team Executives (aka HOMEPLATE).
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Sports executives aren't the only fans of HOMEPLATE. Shortly after the program's inception, it received a hearty endorsement from the United Front of Unfettered Kingpin Developers (UFUKD).
Homeowners, The Pesky Little Blighters
According to the Real Estate Development "industry," as cited in today's New York Times, a bunch of pesky, small-time pipsqueaks (aka homeowners and small business owners) are ruining it for everybody with regard to the Atlantic Yards proposal...
As far as I can tell, this ["blight"] study concludes that individual property owners are a major inconvenience to big shot developers, and since threat of bodily harm is ostensibly illegal in real estate transactions, developers need another sort of weapon - namely, the threat of eminent domain.
Posted by lumi at July 26, 2006 11:25 AM