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March 9, 2012
Poor Bruce Ratner
Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn
The Real Deal, in a hagiographic article on the city's powerful real estate wingmen, says while Bruce Ratner and his lieutenant MaryAnne Gilmartin play the levers of government in back rooms to get Forest City Ratner's deals done, it is Bob Sanna who gets the boondoggles built.
...Yes Poor, poor beset Bruce Ratner, he who said of the Atlantic Center Mall's odd, cold design:
"It's a problem of malls in dense urban areas that kids hang out there, and it's not too positive for shopping," Mr. Ratner said. "Look, here you're in an urban area, you're next to projects, you've got tough kids."
Adding that it was not an issue of class or ethnicity, he said: "You know it's kids that cut school. In the burbs, a 15-year-old can't get to the mall without his parents. Here, it's a little different."
Posted by eric at March 9, 2012 2:11 PM