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April 5, 2007
Rally Against Demolition for Enormous ‘Temporary’ Parking Lots
StreetsBlog reminds us why Ratner is demolishing the historic Ward Bakery building:
Forest City Ratner plans to demolish two entire city blocks – including historic buildings that should be reused like the Ward Bakery - to create enormous “temporary” surface parking lots for over 1400 cars that would blight Brooklyn for decades.
These parking lots will also encourage more people to drive, leading to worse traffic, worse air quality, and worse quality of life for those living in the surrounding neighborhoods. And they simply aren’t needed. No other large-scale development in the city has required the demolition of two city blocks for parking.
NoLandGrab: The construction at the World Trade Center site in Lower Manhattan will take decades and amazingly does not require an enormous surface parking lot.
Workers seems to be able to get to the site just fine without a gianormous parking lot and entire city blocks are not required for staging.
"Why is the Atlantic Yards project different from all other real-estate development projects?"
Posted by lumi at April 5, 2007 11:25 AM