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July 25, 2007
Real Estate Round-Up: July 23, 2007
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
By Sarah Ryley
Only one of the five oversight measures state officials promised for the Atlantic Yards project have become a reality, nearly three months after they were promised following the collapse of the Ward Bakery rooftop parapet, the Daily News reports.
An investigation into the causes of the collapse is still underway, but the promised ombudsman, construction liaison, and committee to oversee transportation issues and regular group meetings have yet to materialize, according to the News. A spokesman for the Empire State Development Corporation, the agency sponsoring the project, says group meetings will begin soon. “This basically says that the Spitzer administration, just like the Pataki administration, is giving us empty promises when it comes to transparency, oversight and accountability,” Councilwoman Letitia James, an opponent of the project, tells the Daily News.
For the record:
- it's 78 DAYS since the ESDC announced they would hire an ombuddy and
- 205 DAYS since "DAY ONE" of the Spitzer administration, the day, according to his campaign slogan, that "everything changes."
- 66 DAYS was all the public was granted to review and comment on the 4,000-page Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
[Not like we're counting.]
Posted by lumi at July 25, 2007 9:51 AM