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November 11, 2009
Borough President Marty Markowitz still has a few tricks up his sleeve, woos big companies
NY Daily News
by Erin Durkin
After eight years in office, Marty Markowitz knows Brooklynites might be getting "tired" of him.
...While acknowledging he may be old hat - or shoe - Markowitz, who won reelection with 85% of the vote, said he's got some tricks up his sleeve to ward off the third-term blues.
At the top of his agenda is luring big corporations to Brooklyn to combat the borough's whopping 11% unemployment rate.
...That's not all that's on his wish list: Markowitz is pushing a groundbreaking for the controversial Atlantic Yards project, and last but not least, a bigger Nathan's hot dog.
Additional coverage...
Atlantic Yards Report, The Markowitz wish list: Atlantic Yards groundbreaking and bigger Nathan's hot dog
Well, it wasn't Markowitz who yoked the clearly frivolous--the bigger hot dog--with the highly deceptive--the groundbreaking--but the sentence does sketch the BP's rather curious universe of duties.
Should there be a groundbreaking, assuming a victory for the state in the eminent domain case and the sale of some $700 million in arena bonds--it almost surely would involve only the arena (with perhaps one tower in tow), not the project at large.
And it most likely would occur before footprint residents, owners, and commercial tenants have been removed via eminent domain.
Posted by eric at November 11, 2009 9:57 AM