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Ratner Creates 1,786 New Artists
The saga of Forest City Ratner's green-cards-for-cash hustle in China and Korea just gets more weirdly corrupt, thanks to investigative digging in multiple languages by the indefatigable Norman Oder.
The basic premise of the EB-5 program is not bad: dangling a priority lane to citizenship in exchange for investment funds that will create jobs in the United States. But now it turns out that to justify their pursuit of $249 million in Asian money, FCR and its partner, the New York City Regional Center, claim the arena will generate 7696 jobs...3705 in construction, 350 in retail and--ready for this?--1786 in art and entertainment.
As far as construction jobs go, at the moment on a good day there may be 150 workers on the site. And that's before Ratner starts using prefab buildings to cut down on labor. And those entertainment jobs that will be created entirely due to the presence of the arena? Besides a certain clown with the stage name "Marty", it's hard to see where the remaining 1785 will come from.
Review the details here from Atlantic Yards Report. And after you finish shaking your head in wonder that the New York mainstream press isn't all over this story, take the advice of the good folk at NoLandGrab:
We just emailed a link to this story to
uscis.immigrantinvestorprogram@dhs.gov
urging the Citizenship & Immigration Services to dig into this shady deal. We suggest you do the same.
Posted: 3.29.11
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