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October 5, 2007
$weetest deal for Domino lobbyists
The Brooklyn Paper
The Domino developer laid on the lobbying pretty thick, but Bruce is still #1.
A development firm hoping to build nine luxury condo towers on the Williamsburg waterfront has paid lobbyists more than a half-million dollars to convince city officials to approve its plan.
Over the past two years, Community Preservation Corporation paid the firm Herrick Feinstein at least $537,000 to prod the city to OK the zoning change necessary to build the $1.2-billion, 2,400-unit project on an 11-acre Domino Sugar site currently set aside for manufacturing.
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Those lobbying figures pale by comparison to Forest City Ratner, which spent more than $2 million to lobby state and local officials to support the Atlantic Yards project in 2006, state records show.
Posted by lumi at October 5, 2007 8:45 AM