From the Daily News:The Atlantic Yards project is lagging on its promise to create much-needed construction jobs.
Only 100 people have been put to work at the Prospect Heights site so far, a Forest City Ratner executive conceded last week - compared to 1,476 predicted in state documents by late 2010.
"Right now, job numbers obviously are less than what they will be as construction gets full throttle at the arena," said Forest City Ratner Vice President MaryAnne Gilmartin.
The Empire State Development Corporation's job projections were made in 2009, and lawsuits and money trouble delayed groundbreaking on the new Nets arena a few months longer than officials expected at the time.
But even accounting for delays, the current number of jobs is much lower than expected. There were supposed to be 563 construction workers on site in the first quarter of 2010, 742 in the second, and 1,055 in the third.
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Well, there's shocking and surprising news for us.
Looks like Bruce's belly's full-o-crap too...judging from the shit eating scowl upon his face.
We don't want to be around when Ratner takes a dump...expelling his recycled crap!
HE'S A LIAR ALONG WITH HIS TURTLE FACED BITCH FRIEND BLOOMBERG. HE'S AN EVEN BIGGER LIAR.
thanks to Goldstein for costing the city thousands of jobs.
Goldstein didn't cost the city anything. They were never going to build housing. It was all a sham. Glad someone stood up and exposed it.
"the current number of jobs is much lower than expected. There were supposed to be 563 construction workers on site in the first quarter of 2010, 742 in the second, and 1,055 in the third."
Are these numbers relative to the original planning of the site? If so hasn't the original plan been scaled down drastically? If this is true then the original employment numbers can't be correct now since the property is not the size that was originally planned.
If that's the case then the public outcry and lawsuits caused this project to be scaled down even if they were bullshitting about "They were never going to build housing. It was all a sham." That means they don't need as much labor... Which means the numbers are going to be off.
It seems to me now there is a lot of nitpicking going on for both sides here. First you all sue the shit out of them and don't want it built, now you are bitching there aren't enough jobs as predicted.
Since it's inevitable that it is going to be built why don't we just get it started so we get some of the people working.
The economy is still shit the last time I looked. Let's get people working in my book...
The opponents said from the beginning that there would be a bait and switch and that there was only a plan to build the arena. In order to get everyone on board with the idea, Ratner had to throw "affordable housing" in there, knowing full well he had no intention of ever building it. Now exactly what the opponents said would happen has happened. The Kool-Aid drinkers really crack me up sometimes.
Time after time, opponents of bad projects are labeled as racists, obstructionists, wackos, etc. And time after time, they are proven right.
What is wrong with the voters of this city?
Fuck these billionaire scumbags.
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