OK, it was only 10:47 PM… but on a Sunday! What could possibly be so important?
Next time, we will stop in and ask.
Or at least make some color copies for only 65 cents apiece.
OK, it was only 10:47 PM… but on a Sunday! What could possibly be so important?
Next time, we will stop in and ask.
Or at least make some color copies for only 65 cents apiece.
Here’s whats so important:
Contact: Forest City Ratner Companies
Lupé Todd
212.981.5241 / 917.202.0116
NEWS ADVISORY –
FOR PLANNING PURPOSES
BROOKLYN ATLANTIC YARDS DEVELOPER – FUTURE HOME OF THE NETS – TO SIGN FIRST NYC COMMUNITY BENEFITS AGREEMENT WITH COMMUNITY ORGNAIZATIONS AND ADVOCATES
(Brooklyn, NY) – June 24, 2005 – Bruce Ratner, CEO and President of Forest City Ratner, the developer of the Atlantic Yards project at the intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues in Brooklyn, will sign the first NYC Community Benefits Agreement Monday, June 27 at 11:00 at a press conference at Fulton Landing in Brooklyn.
(my note: And now introducing the Community)
Also signing the agreement are the following organizations ACORN (Bertha Lewis), Downtown Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance (Reverend Herbert Daughtry), BUILD (James Caldwell), All Faith Council of Brooklyn (Reverend Walter J. Morris and Rev. Orlando Findlayter), First Atlantic Terminal Housing (Delia Hunley-Adossa), New York State Association of Minority Contractors (Len Britton and Monica Foster), and Public Housing Communities (Charlene Nimmons).
Elected officials and others are also expected to attend the signing.
The CBA, which will be legally binding, outlines the benefits of the development, including affordable housing, local jobs, jobs training, small business and minority and women owned business programs, use of the facilities, etc
WHAT: Signing of first NYC Community Benefits Agreement for Brooklyn Atlantic Yards project
WHO: Forest City Ratner and Community Organizations (see above)
WHEN: Monday June 27, 2005 at 11:00 a.m.
WHERE: Fulton Landing in Brooklyn
(Directions: By subway, Take A or C train to High Street/ Brooklyn Bridge and then
walk to the East River. By car (from Manhattan) take the Brooklyn Bridge and take the
first exit. Stay to your right and go down Cadman Plaza West and follow to the
East River. From Brooklyn, you also take Cadman Plaza West and go down to the East
River.)
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My colleague and I discovered this site today. We enjoyed reading the posts pertaining to BUILD. Being part of making history has been a fascinating venture; I thank GOD for it. I think it would be great to have a public debate between BUILD and DDDb on the value of Atlantic Yards and the CBA to our community. We believe in our mission of using the development process to create and connect people to sorely needed employment, business, affordable housing and educational opportunities. We must close the wealth, unemployment and poverty gaps that has rendered our community into a state of socio-economic apartheid. Pockets of wealth in the midst of neighhorhoods grappling with extreme rates of poverty, unemployment and underclass entrapment.
Instead of complaining about challenges or ignoring them BUILD recognized the hope and the potential to connect people to opportunties through the Atlantic Yards / Nets Arena project. Opportunities to help make a dent in the local unemployment and poverty crises by changing the paradigm for how development transpires in neighborhood. Consequently launched a movement to secure a Community Benefits Agreement for Atlantic Yards- Announced at our first conference on Sunday, February 9, 2004 on the steps of City Hall.
We praise God for blessing us with the success of signing a CBA on Monday, June 27, 2005.
Again, my parting words are: I challenge Develop Don’t Destroy to a public Debate on The Value of FCRC’s Atlantic Yards and why it would be detrimental to our community for it to not move forward.
Marie