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November 25, 2006
GOOF COULD STALL B'KLYN BALL
NY Post
An Empire State Development Corp. foul-up could delay final approval of Ratner's $4.2 billion, six-block Atlantic Yards project until after Eliot Spitzer takes over as governor in January - something that gives project opponents a glimmer of hope that the huge development could still be defeated.Charles Gargano, the ESDC chairman and Gov. Pataki's economic-development czar, announced this week that the agency inadvertently left some public comments out of the project's 4,500-page Final Environmental Impact Statement it released Nov. 15. The statement must now be revised, and the ESDC is set to meet Monday.
There is still enough time for Atlantic Yards to get its mandatory approvals from the ESDC and Public Authorities Control Board before Pataki leaves office Dec. 31.
But Daniel Goldstein, spokesman for the opposition group Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, believes the PACB - which includes Gargano's nemesis, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver - could see the ESDC's failure to produce a complete impact statement as proof it "tried to rush the project through" before Spitzer takes over.
Is it us or does the Post article make "GOOF" look like a noun describing the accompanying photo?
Posted by amy at November 25, 2006 1:08 PM