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December 31, 2010
Arena pitch in China: ESDC's Davidson shares a laugh with FCR executives; long-departed Net Vince Carter portrayed as part of the attraction
Atlantic Yards Report
You didn't think a 16-part series was all Norman Oder had to say about Forest City Ratner's green card-selling adventure in China, did you?
Who are these happy Americans? They're Forest City Ratner executives, in China in October, along with a few others, trying to sell would-be immigrant investors on the questionable Brooklyn Arena and Infrastructure Project, a project of FCR and the New York City Regional Center (NYCRC).
(Photo from web page of Wailian immigration consultancy, which is still promoting events in January. Click on graphics to enlarge.)
From right: FCR's David Berliner, Christopher Clayton [I believe], and MaryAnne Gilmartin; the Empire State Development Corporation's Peter Davidson; the NYCRC's Paul Levinsohn; and Miller Mayer attorney Nicolai Hinrichsen.
Posted by eric at December 31, 2010 10:10 AM