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November 27, 2011
Forest City Ratner's latest dubious claim about the Independent Compliance Monitor required by the CBA: "As the project progresses, especially, with residential, a monitor will be hired"
Atlantic Yards Report
After I raised the issue in City Limits, and Council Member Letitia James followed up a public meeting and a press conference, we have a new pledge from developer Forest City Ratner regarding an Independent Compliance Monitor required by the Community Benefits Agreement.
Responding to a comment solicited by Our Time Press (almost certainly from the notorious Stephen Witt), FCR now says it hire such a monitor--but sometime later.
The reporter didn't bother to look at the actual document, which required a monitor years ago.
But Witt doesn't try to hold Forest City Ratner accountable. Nor does the rest of the press when it comes to the CBA.
(The New York Observer ran a front-page article this week on problems with the Columbia University CBA. No contact info for the person in charge of the Columbia CBA? Ditto in Brooklyn. No web site for the CBA? Ditto. It's just that there's a Congressional candidate, Vince Morgan, who's decided to make an issue of it in Manhattan.)
Posted by steve at November 27, 2011 3:34 PM