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December 18, 2010
At Thursday's ESDC meeting, a valedictory for Chairman Dennis Mullen and an Atlantic Yards omission
Atlantic Yards Report
Dennis Mullen says "adieu" to the ESDC, the tool of developer Bruce Ratner. His parting remarks display the usual blandness of ESDC public statements that mask a public agency whose projects primarily serve private interests, drain public funds, and produce no discernible public benefits.
'This has been a privilege, an honor, to be able to do this," Mullen said in response, adding, with perhaps a reference to the citizens in the room prepared to comment about Atlantic Yards, "Not everything is agreed upon by everybody, and I think it's made it challenging. For the record, I've done the best as I possibly could do, to be as balanced as fair as I possibly could be, in the decisions throughout the state."
"I do in my heart believe we have made good decisions to be able to improve the overall economic environment for the state of New York over the past year and a half," he said, offering praise for the "dedicated employees."
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They then went into executive session for 34 minutes. After that, they sat through public criticism of their Atlantic Yards findings from several Brooklynites, and proceeded to approve the new Technical Analysis that said a 25-year buildout would be no more burdensome, under state law, than a ten-year one.
Posted by steve at December 18, 2010 9:59 AM