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January 8, 2009
Builder: This ‘Domino’ won’t fall
The Brooklyn Paper
By Ben Muessig
Buried inside this article about how the current financial crisis may affect the conversion of Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar refinery into housing is a comment by Assemblyman Joe Lentol about Domino that includes Atlantic Yards.
Assemblyman Joe Lentol (D–Williamsburg), who has long called for reducing the height of the skyscraping towers, said that beleaguered banks likely won’t lend to developers — and builders might need to turn to the community for support.
“I’m cautiously optimistic that we can use this as an opportunity to negotiate the size of the project,” said Lentol. “Just as Atlantic Yards may be scaled down, Domino’s dreams for a large project may be scaled down too.”
Lentol has never opposed the proposed Atlantic Yards project. If anything changes about the project, it will not be due to any effort on his part.
Posted by steve at January 8, 2009 5:25 AM