Community
Boards to Ratner, "discontinue all mention of our participation"
Posted in No Land Grab on May 4, 2006 11:50 PM
Community
Benefits Agreements, is it extortion & who benefits?
Posted in No Land Grab on April 21, 2006 06:52 AM
The
C.B.A. at Atlantic Yards: But Is It Legal?
Posted in No Land Grab on March 15, 2006 06:33 AM
Modern
blueprint? In CBA discussion, Atlantic Yards is the elephant in the
room
Posted in No Land Grab on March 14, 2006 09:35 AM
CBA
Signatories Tout Atlantic Yards In Albany
Posted in No Land Grab on March 2, 2006 10:58 AM
The C.B.A. Tourney
The Real Estate Observer's Matthew Schuerman provides a glance at
two local Community Benefits Agreements. In the red corner, we have
Forest City Ratner, and in the blue corner, The Related Companies. While
you are checking it out, keep in...
Posted in No Land Grab on February 22, 2006 08:50 AM
Community
groups say they were left out of Bronx market benefit pact
Posted in No Land Grab on February 7, 2006 02:37 PM
Dispiriting
debates: false premises (on eminent domain) and half-loaves (regarding
the CBA)
Posted in No Land Grab on November 17, 2005 09:59 PM
Ratner's
PR strategy shift
The Terrie Williams/Bruce Ratner PR machine is now deploying people
to stump for the Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) who uniformly and
unequivocally state that they "aren't" or "were not initially" for the
Atlantic Yards project and still have "concerns" about...
Posted in No Land Grab on November 17, 2005 06:35 AM
The
Brooklyn Standard: Get your copies now!
The Ratner distribution machine blitzed local neighborhoods with
copies of The Brooklyn Standard. The Ratner rag was distributed by workers
today hired by "a company called BUILD." Get your copies while supplies
last. What's new in the latest edition of...
Posted in No Land Grab on October 15, 2005 10:25 AM
It came from the Blogosphere...
Dope on the Slope: "What is shocking is that BUILD and Ratner aren't
very adept at covering their tracks. If a group with so much money at
their disposal can't keep their Machiavellian machinations secret, why
do we expect them...
Posted in No Land Grab on October 2, 2005 12:03 PM
BUILDing
Blocks
Matthew Schuerman of The Real Estate Observer gets his gumshoes on and
does some real investigative journalism to get to the root of the astroturf...
BUILD and Forest City Ratner deny that any money has changed hands or
pledges...
Posted in No Land Grab on October 1, 2005 09:50 PM
Critics
Say Ratner Is Bankrolling Supporters
The NY Sun by David Lombino BUILD's attorney does damage control:
The attorney that submitted BUILD's application to the IRS, Sharai Erima,
told The New York Sun that the $5 million in projected contributions
from Mr. Ratner had been determined...
Posted in No Land Grab on September 30, 2005 06:06 AM
DDDb
Press Release: Bruce Ratner Buys B.U.I.L.D., Fabricating Support for
Atlantic Yards
Smoking Gun IRS Documents Reveal $5 Million Payment to Supposed
"Community Organization *B.U.I.L.D and Ratner Have Denied Funding Scheme
* [DDDb's press release on their website has hyperlinks to sources.]
NEW YORK, NY--Today Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) released IRS...
Posted in No Land Grab on September 29, 2005 07:26 AM
BUILD:
Bribe Us in Large Denominations (NLG Commentary)
Ratner pays community group to stump for his plan and play race
card in the name of Our Lord. Shocked, shocked! There is bribery in
Ratnerville! BUILD (Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development),
has been exposed as "Astroturf," a group...
Posted in No Land Grab on September 29, 2005 06:42 AM
Sharpton
Backs Ratner's Plan for Altantic Yards
Park Slope Courier by Stephen Witt However, Sharpton said the support
is not so much for developer Forest City Ratner Companies (FCRC) as
it for the those community activists and groups who signed onto the
recent Community Benefits Agreement (CBA)...
Posted in No Land Grab on July 26, 2005 11:57 AM
Ratner
commits to select groups
The Brooklyn Papers By Jess Wisloski An "agreement" among agreeing
parties isn't surprising. Atlantic Yards community benefits agreement,
or CBA, is a contract "between the developer and community groups that
have supported his project." No city entity is bound by...
Posted in No Land Grab on July 2, 2005 09:14 AM
IN
BRUCE WE TRUST
Posted in No Land Grab on July 2, 2005 08:50 AM
Even
more news on the Community Benefits Agreement:
Commercial Property News, Nets' $3.5B Brooklyn Project Makes Community
Provisions Brooklyn Downtown Star, (Some) Community Inks CBA...
Posted in No Land Grab on June 30, 2005 06:14 AM
More
coverage of Ratner's CBA
Ratner says the Community Benefits Agreement is "legally binding."
Bloomberg says, "You have Bruce Ratner's word. That should be enough
for you and for everybody else in this community." We feel better about
the whole thing -- don't you? NY1,...
Posted in No Land Grab on June 29, 2005 06:44 AM
DDDb
Preess Release: Ratner's So-called "Community" Benefits Agreement
Posted in No Land Grab on June 28, 2005 08:00 PM
Ratner,
Bloomie tout CBA in press conference
Posted in No Land Grab on June 28, 2005 08:52 AM
DDDb
Press Release: Ratner's So-called "Community" Benefits Agreement Bypasses
Community and Local Elected Officials
Posted in No Land Grab on June 28, 2005 06:58 AM
Atlantic
Yards community deal due Monday
Posted in No Land Grab on June 24, 2005 09:44 PM
Blacks
remain divided over Ratner development
Posted in No Land Grab on March 24, 2005 07:01 AM
Ratner:
City Playing Ball
Posted in No Land Grab on January 30, 2005 09:08 PM
COLUMBIA'S
EXPANSION: Summit Is Set For University
Posted in No Land Grab on January 13, 2005 08:33 AM
DDDb
Press Release: "Ratner 'Community Benefits Agreement' (CBA) is DOA And
Brooklyn Community Board Chairs Helped Kill It
Posted in No Land Grab on November 19, 2004 08:28 AM
