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July 7, 2009
Wylde Ideas, Making For a Wrong Partnership
Noticing New York blogger Michael D.D. White takes Kathrine Wylde of the Partnership for New York City to task for the group's steadfast position on Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project, even though the project has changed so significantly, as to warrant a second look:
It was amazing that the Partnership supported Atlantic Yards in the first place, when the megadevelopment had not been subject to any proper and legitimate bid process. How much more amazing is it that the partnership supports the new iteration of the project now when it has become an even worse and more developer-oriented project that it ever was before? The Partnership supports it when, so altered, it should be going back for bid and reappraisal of its design. And how can the Partnership blithely be supporting, however you calculate their total amount, the hundreds of millions in giveaways to Ratner with nothing going to the public in return?
Posted by lumi at July 7, 2009 6:02 AM