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August 24, 2011
Bruce Ratner to Finally Build a Residential Tower at Atlantic Yards?
The L Magazine
by Mark Asch
For now, the Observer further reports, Forest City Ratner isn't ruling out the possibility of building a prefabricated tower—it'd be a cheaper, shorter process, requiring far fewer construction workers—a test balloon that took many potshots when it was floated this spring.
“'Clearly, prefab housing is not what we expected,'" Richard Weiss, a spokesman for Construction and General Building Laborers’ Local 79, told the Brooklyn Paper: '"The only reason we [supported the project] was for jobs for our members.'" Right, because Forest City Ratner has kept so many of the promises it made in
manufacturingenlisting support for Atlantic Yards.
Posted by eric at August 24, 2011 11:14 AM