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May 5, 2011
Like, OMG, NJ, a mall is not public infrastructure!!!!!!!!!!!
The Torch
by Nicole Gelinas
This blog focuses on New York. But the new managers of the Xanadu-cum- “American-Dream@Meadowlands” mall project over in Jersey noted helpfully yesterday that “Manhattan can see us.”
OK, then. What Manhattan sees today is an unwise leadership decision on the part of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Yesterday, Christie officially threw state support behind the resurrection of this long-failed project to build a mega-mall in northern New Jersey.
Having called the unfinished building “the ugliest damn building in New Jersey and perhaps America,” Christie pledged to see the supposedly private-sector project through under new ownership.
To that end, the state will offer $200 million in new financial help.
...If the dozens of other political vanity projects — from sports stadiums to Atlantic Yards to Destiny USA — that came before this one are an indication, the mall will continue to be a boondoggle.
NoLandGrab: This is the same Chris Christie who wouldn't spend NJ taxpayers' money on the badly needed ARC tunnel project. We guess an indoor ski slope is more important than good commuter-rail access.
Posted by eric at May 5, 2011 10:14 AM