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November 11, 2006
This Old House - Safe For Now
Courier-Life covers a local preservation issue, with a couple of nods to Ratner:
City Councilmember Letitia James has been working with the residents to preserve the house. She said she had stayed in touch with both LPC and DOB, every step of the way.“I’m very hopeful that we can preserve this house,” James remarked, adding that area activists are taking it, “One victory at a time,” in their efforts to get some control of, “Over-development in downtown Brooklyn that’s now spreading into central Brooklyn.”
The kicker is the novel "Ratner excuse" employed by developer Christopher Morris:
“I don’t know why the focus is on me, so much, as if I’m doing something wrong,” Morris went on. “They should focus on Ratner. I don’t know why everyone is focusing on the condos. Condos are going up everywhere. Why focus on this particular property, this particular guy?”
NoLandGrab: Does Mr. Morris sound familiar? He was recently profiled in the Times. Apparently Ratner inspired his purchase. Great developers think alike?
Posted by amy at November 11, 2006 11:21 PM