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February 27, 2009
How Unappealing
The Architect's Newspaper Blog
This blog entry points out that despite the latest legal victory for the developer of the proposed Atlantic Yards, it's not at all clear that the project can be built.
The folks over at Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn have been paper cutting Forest City Ratner for years now, with lawsuit after lawsuit, but they may almost out, and still without a victory–at least not a legal one. Today, the Appellate Division of the state Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the ESDC had not erred in its filing of the environmental review of Atlantic Yards.
The case wound up at the appellate division after it was declined by a lower court, but that hasn’t stopped Dan Goldstein and company without already pushing the issue to the next level:
Hopefully, the Court of Appeals will provide a standard to avoid the ludicrous outcome that, despite the significant questions about the improper motives of the ESDC and the inappropriate influence of the developer, the court’s hands are tied and constrained to uphold the approval of such a disastrous project.
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And so now onward to destiny. And more billable hours. Which may well be the point. With the collapse of the economy, Forest City Ratner is running out of time to find financing for the project before certain contracts expire. And so, in losing and thereby dragging things out after half-a-dozen legal challenges, DDDB is actually winning.
Posted by steve at February 27, 2009 3:14 AM