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July 22, 2009
The public has questions. Do Forest City Ratner and the ESDC have answers?
Brooklyn Downtown Star: Atlantic Yards Watch
by Eric McClure
This correspondent suggests some possible questions for tonight's Atlantic Yards Informational Meeting via the Brooklyn Downtown Star.
How enlightening those answers may be will remain to be seen, since the ESDC often defers to Forest City, which has been notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to divulging meaningful information about the controversial project. In fact, the lack of substantive public disclosure has become a running joke among critics of the Atlantic Yards project, who frequently mock a statement, made last year by a Forest City spokesperson, that "when it comes to sharing information with the public and governmental bodies, there's no such thing as too much, as far as we are concerned." Reality indicates otherwise.
But on the outside chance that the folks at Forest City and the ESDC might get an accidental hit of truth serum, we've prepared a number of important questions that, despite all of the developer's claimed information-sharing, still lack satisfactory answers.
Posted by eric at July 22, 2009 12:36 PM