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February 23, 2007
Clarke meets with Barclays bigs
The Brooklyn Paper
By Dana Rubinstein
Rep. Yvette Clarke met with Barclays last week, the culmination of two weeks during which she slammed Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner for naming his proposed basketball arena after a bank that profited from the slave trade, did business with apartheid South Africa, and froze Jewish bank accounts during the Holocaust.
Neither Clarke nor Barclays would comment on the meeting, which took place on Feb. 15. But, insiders speculated that Clarke was seeking more money from Barclays, which has pledged $2.5 million to fix up neighborhood basketball courts.
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Forest City Ratner would not comment on the latest meeting.
NoLandGrab: Much is being made about the Ratner-Barclays deal, but there hasn't been any public discourse as to whether or not the deal would be more palatable if Barclays coughed up a bunch more money at the community. How much money would be appropriate for bygones to be bygones?
And has anyone asked how Clarke would manage to hold "Congressional hearings" on the subject?
Posted by lumi at February 23, 2007 8:24 AM