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Bruce Ratner: “when a developer speaks it’s not always believed."
The Atlantic Yards quote of the year appears in Harvey Araton's odd, single-source New York Times profile of Nets minority owner and Atlantic Yards land-grabber Bruce Ratner:
“There’s a bittersweet feeling in having a majority owner in Brooklyn not be us,” he said, acknowledging his many critics will scoff because “when a developer speaks it’s not always believed.”
... (Emphasis added.)
Well gee, why might that be? We could give a laundry list of good reasons why developers are not always believed.
But it is better to just let Bruce Ratner speak for himself in the same article. Here he tells the kind of whopper that would cause disbelief when "a developer speaks":
[Ratner] conceded that he would continue to be assailed as a franchise snatcher and team destroyer, all for the sole purpose of constructing a small city of residential towers, while insisting that bringing a major professional sports team back to Brooklyn was always his first priority. The residential component, he said, was necessary to finance an arena on a railyards site that was going to require extraordinary infrastructure costs the city would not incur.
... (Emphasis added.) Really? Bringing pro sports back to Brooklyn was always the first priority? Creating investor and shareholder value by gaining cheap ownership to prime real estate wasn't the first priority? Or, wasn't it affordable housing? It is difficult to know what to believe when this developer in particular opens his mouth.
Posted: 6.21.10
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