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Atlantic Yards: Information Sharing Recordkeeping, Part 2
(Part 1)
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."
The March 7 NY Observer (by way of the Atlantic
Yards Report) publishes a letter from Speaker Sheldon Silver to Bruce
Ratner about a problem with a Ratner project in his district. The Observer
reports:
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is troubled by the pace of a Frank
Gehry-designed development by Bruce Ratner. And it’s not Atlantic Yards.
Downtown Express reported
today that Mr. Silver sent a letter to Mr. Ratner expressing concern about
the construction schedule of Forest City Ratner’s Beekman
Tower at 8 Spruce Street downtown, a planned 75-story mostly residential
tower that has a school in the base. Mr. Silver wrote that because the school
is slated to open in 2009 and construction has been minimal, he wants
an update on the anticipated completion.
A spokesman for Mr. Silver said his office hasn’t yet received a response to
the letter, which is dated Feb. 25...
Here's the
emailed non-answer, as published by the Observer, from Forest City
Ratner spokesman Loren Riegelhaupt:
We have received the Speaker's letter and understand his and the community's
concerns relating to the opening of the school. We are very sensitive to the
school overcrowding issues currently facing Lower Manhattan as it was the Speaker
who originally raised the issue and it was at his insistence that we included
the school in our project. We are continuing to work very closely with the Speaker
and appreciate all of his efforts in helping to move the project forward as
quickly as possible.
Posted: 3.10.08
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