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July 29, 2009
Atlantic Yards Crescendo in Brooklyn
Huffington Post
Author and Atlantic Yards critic Steve Ettlinger aptly describes the run-up to today's public hearing as "weird":
Yes, the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) has deigned to allow the public to comment this week on the biggest development in the city, one which, if completed as originally described, will be the denser than the densest census tract in the country, in Harlem.
How much denser? Original projections were as much as TWICE as dense, or about 500,000 people per square mile. For various reasons we don't know what the final population of new tenants will be.
One of those reasons is that neither Forest City Ratner (FCR) nor the ESDC is providing final figures or drawings of the proposed arena and buildings despite the hearing's ostensible purpose: to comment on the Modified General Project Plan.
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The idea, I guess, is to simply trust the ESDC. They say they'll release new information in September, which as I figure it, comes after the July hearings.
Posted by lumi at July 29, 2009 5:28 AM