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November 1, 2011
The Eminent Domain One-Percenter
Inverse Condemnation
We're not all that down with the "occupy movement." It seems too unfocused, too anti-competition, too anti-success for us to get on board with the idea that equality of result is what the American dream and our system are based on.
But things like this profile of MaryAnne Gilmartin, executive vice president of commercial and residential development at Forest City Ratner Companies in this month's Westchester magazine, make us want to go down to Zuccotti Park and set up a tent.
An "innovative and tenacious builder" who has "left her mark" on the New York skyline, "she’s helping to shape Atlantic Yards, a complex of residential and commercial buildings that will also be the new home of the New Jersey Nets."
The profile details how she got her start, interning and then working for the New York City Economic Development Corporation for seven years before sliding over to Forest City, where her first grand project was the New York Times building, which like Atlantic Yards needed the government's power of eminent domain to make it happen. Are you starting to see the pattern?
Posted by eric at November 1, 2011 11:48 AM