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Atlantic Yards: Information Sharing Recordkeeping, Part 4
(Part 1) (Part
2 ) (Part 3)
In the February 26 NY Observer
Forest
City Ratner spokesman Loren Reigelhaupt said:
“When it comes to sharing information with the public and
governmental bodies, there’s no such thing as too much, as far as we are concerned."
Today The
Brooklyn Paper
follows up on a story which Norman
Oder broke on his Atlantic Yards Report about how Ratner can get
away with building only 300 units of so called "affordable" housing
by 2020 without any penalty (originally the whole project was supposed to be built
by 2016):
...According to Ratner, the project now consists only of the publicly
financed basketball arena and two or three smaller towers around it.
The result would be just hundreds of units of below-market-rate housing, not
the 2,250 units that Ratner promised to build — and that has lawmakers, including
those who once supported the project — seeing red.
“Whether you think the original deal was good or bad — and I think it was a
bad deal — the project that he agreed to is not being built,” said Councilman
David Yassky (D–Brooklyn Heights), who will join colleagues Letitia James (D–Fort
Greene) and Bill DeBlasio (D–Park Slope) at a rally on Saturday to call for
a moratorium on demolition until Atlantic Yards is renegotiated.
Forest City Ratner did not answer requests for comment.
...
(Emphasis added)
Posted: 5.01.08
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