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Atlantic Yards Footprint: Incredible Blight Study Claim Affirmed in Court Decision
Judge Madden's
ruling in favor of the ESDC last week, included a rejection of the petitioners'
challenge to the Empire State Development Corporation's (ESDC) determination that
the proposed footprint for the Atlantic Yards project is "blighted."
The 26 community organizations who filed the lawsuit claimed that development/rezoning
to the south of the rail yard was occurring apace when Forest City Ratner announced
its project putting a halt to that development/rezoning. Judge Madden rejected
this argument, and affirmed the ESDC's "blight study" claim that, to
paraphrase, most of the footprint is unlivable.
Here is the relevant excerpt from Judge Madden's ruling (ATURA=Atlantic
Terminal Urban Renewal Area):
We don't think it's going out on a limb to say that there are no residents who
live in or have lived in the "area" who feel that they are living in
"unsanitary and unsafe" conditions.
Over on the Atlantic Yards Report today Norman
Oder writes about the Newswalk building, which is surrounded by the project
site (or cut
out from the footprint to be more precise), and how its developer Shaya Boymelgreen
saw his $6 million investment in the building in 1997 turn into a building worth
at least $120 million. Such appreciation does not occur in an
area where "residents...continue to live among conditions that are unsanitary
and unsafe."
Posted: 1.15.08
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