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September 18, 2007
Comptroller wants to sink water park
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By Patrick Arden
NYC Comptroller William Thompson, an Atlantic Yards supporter, has emerged as a critic of the Randall's Island Water Park. At issue: failure to secure financing before the deadline, awarding "a sole-source contract for a large private development on public land," increasing costs, and a closed-door process. Go figure.
“The developer is in default,” wrote Comptroller William Thompson in a letter to Mayor Michael Bloomberg yesterday, eight months after the deadline had passed. “The process should be redone in a fair, open and competitive manner.”
Thompson had already called for the project to be reopened to bids. A “seriously flawed process,” he said, had led to a sole-source contract for a large private development on public land. The water park had also doubled in size and quadrupled in cost since the 35-year concession was announced by the Giuliani administration in 2000.
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“The comptroller maintains that Parks’ actions are unconscionable and fly in the face of fair and open government,” [Thompson spokesman Jeff Simmons] said.
Posted by lumi at September 18, 2007 8:25 AM