tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20743459.post2089910265498187346..comments2024-03-28T05:19:17.215-04:00Comments on Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Report: What's right with this picture? For West Side yards, the market speaksNorman Oderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07618087999719667586noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20743459.post-12904337590036058022007-11-20T09:10:00.000-05:002007-11-20T09:10:00.000-05:00It is time to go back and have a proper bid proces...It is time to go back and have a proper bid process for development the Atlantic Yards/Vanderbilt Yards. It would be nice if the bid were structured the way Hudson Yards bid was structured so that developers know exactly what they should be bidding on and bid on the same thing. Also, Because of the Atlantic Yards/Vanderbilt Yards site is long and narrow it would be quite conducive to bid out the site out as multiple sites that potentially would be awarded to more than one developer.<BR/><BR/> Wouldn’t it be nice if multiple developers actually felt as if they were “allowed” by the State and City administrations to bid on the Atlantic Yards/Vanderbilt Yards site?<BR/><BR/> Wouldn’t it be nice if multiple bids generated significantly better designs that the public could comment upon?<BR/><BR/> Wouldn’t it be nice if Forest City Ratner, already the owner of adjacent existing properties being publicly subsidized to cope with their economic failure, did not bid this time? And that we are not faced with more failure and an undeserved monopolistic monoculture of ownership?<BR/><BR/> Wouldn’t it be nice if the New York City Council would wise up and recapture all that money it plans to dole out to Forest City Ratner and wouldn’t it be nice to know, with a real bid process, what this site could actually be worth the MTA? Wouldn’t it be nice to see that money spent on worthy projects instead?<BR/><BR/> Wouldn’t it be nice if the Atlantic Yards/Vanderbilt Yards were not being built with the use of pretextual eminent domain to ratchet up megadeveloper windfall while destroying neighborhood buildings we should keep?<BR/><BR/> Wouldn’t it be nice to see something built that was respectful to our neighborhoods, our intelligence and basic concepts of integrity.MDDWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16693635186364315879noreply@blogger.com