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June 18, 2011
UNITY 4 Meeting Broaches New Plan For Atlantic Yards
The Local (NY Times Blog)
By SUSAN ROHWER, CUNY J-School
Veteran organizers and newcomers packed into a community space at the Commons on Atlantic Avenue to discuss the next steps in the plan. UNITY 4 is a revision of previous plan, UNITY, which is an acronym for Understanding, Imagining and Transforming The Yards. The plan was developed by activists shortly after the Atlantic Yard development was announced in 2003.
Speakers at the meeting said that now is the time to restart the discussion about the development, and to refresh the past UNITY plan. The arena is being built, but the community can still influence what happens on the remaining parcels of land, said Daniel Goldstein from Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB).
“The majority of the site is not done being developed,” Mr. Goldstein said. “This is the next phase.”
City Councilwoman Letitia James called on DDDB and other community groups to kick off a new organizing plan. “Can we engineer the project into something to benefit the common good?” she asked the crowd.
Posted by steve at June 18, 2011 1:57 PM