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December 19, 2006
Has Silver Already Decided on the Yards?
The Empire Zone
Your humble reporter has been hearing similar chatter yesterday and this morning — but he has also been hearing the opposite, and many things in between. A delay seems not at all out of the question. But Skip Carrier, a spokesman for Mr. Silver, repeats what he told New York 1, and everyone else: The speaker has not yet decided.
“We had some fairly specific questions that were not getting answered. We made that known,” said Mr. Carrier. “They are providing us with additional material right now. We are making a good faith effort on what as you know is a very complicated project.”
The New York Observer’s Real Estate blog thinks Mr. Silver is laying the groundwork for a delay even if he hasn’t decided. We also hear, from sources who wish no ill to the controversial project, that Mr. Silver might merely be going through the motions.
But Mr. Carrier said that is not so. In fact, he said, just in the last hour or so, the Empire State Development Corporation, the state agency overseeing the project, dumped a large load of financial documents on Mr. Silver’s proverbial desk, and the speaker’s staff is sorting through it to discern whether it will provide the answers he has been seeking.
“We have received a significant amount of information and we are being briefed on it right now,” said Mr. Carrier. “He is still seriously trying to get his arms around a project that is big and complicated.”
Posted by lumi at December 19, 2006 9:50 PM