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September 28, 2008
Markowitz Plays the Atlantic Yards Charade
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn also weighs in on this week's Courier article with a list of what Marty's staffer should have told him:
-Ratner literally has no plans to build Phase 2 were around 80% of the proposed "affordable" housing would be built.-Ratner will not build his 650,000 square feet of office space without an anchor tenant, and finding an anchor tenant would be a miracle.
-Ratner's billion dollar white elephant arena would create very few new jobs and would be a net loss for the City of New York
-Well, the list is really too long to re-publish here, we've already explained how Atlantic Yards is too costly and too risky, how it is not strategic by any stretch of the imagination, and how the arena is a "frill at the edge." We've also explained how the whole blinkered effort to push Atlantic Yards forward is a charade.
Posted by amy at September 28, 2008 2:38 PM