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June 21, 2007
Seamless transition? FCR's new AY head seen exploring the footprint
Atlantic Yards Report
This week the "Mad Overkiller," Norman Oder, has been posting like a... well, like a Mad Overkiller, so we're not surprised that we missed this late-edition post from Monday.
A tipster... [spotted the new Forest City Ratner Atlantic Yards Development Group President] Gilmartin at about 8:30 a.m. today, standing at the corner of Dean Street and Sixth Avenue, across from Freddy's Bar & Backroom, the epicenter of the Atlantic Yards opposition. It looked, the tipster said, like she was being briefed for the battlefield.
Had the departure [of former Atlantic Yards Development Group President Jim Stuckey] been long planned, wouldn't Gilmartin have gotten her walkaround before Brooklynites had their antennae up?
Note: the above obviously contains some speculation. I don't know if Gilmartin has visited the footprint before, nor the precise reason she was there this morning.
NoLandGrab: The Mad O is too polite to point out that no one is saying why Stuckey left. By merely serving up the extremely lame canned excuse, "to pursue new challenges," the implication is that the entire episode was unspeakably bad, which would lead one to conclude that it was more precipitous than all parties will admit. Not exactly a seamless transition.
Posted by lumi at June 21, 2007 7:45 AM