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March 23, 2007
Gotta Spend It To Make It
Brooklyn Downtown Star
By Norman Oder
Forest City Ratner did lead in one category: the largest single lobbying contract, $656,520, went to law firm of Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson. Among other things, Fried Frank lobbied the New York City Department of City Planning (DCP).
While DCP held no public hearings, given that Atlantic Yards is a state project bypassing the city's typical land use review process, the associated City Planning Commission had one public meeting in September, where it issued recommendations for an eight percent cutback in the size of the project. Most of those cuts had already been put on the table by Atlantic Yards architect Frank Gehry in January 2006.
Posted by lumi at March 23, 2007 8:22 AM