With developer (conveniently) missing from scheduled meeting, ESD rep says Greenland *may* face penalty for missing affordable housing deadline. Renegotiation?
This is the first of three articles about the Feb. 7. 2023 Quality of Life meeting, Subsequent articles will address plans for 595 Dean St. and changes at the Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation (AY CDC). Last night's belatedly rescheduled Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park Quality of Life meeting--which is supposed to be held bi-monthly but hadn't been held since September 2022--lasted barely half an hour, attracted only 25 people, and disclosed little new information. But what wasn't said, and who wasn't there, were in their own way telling, as was the suggestion that the looming penalty over unbuilt affordable housing might be optional rather than mandatory. Missing meetings What happened to the meeting scheduled for November 15, 2022, and then the (presumed) next meeting two months later in January? "Due to a scheduling conflict on the 15th, that meeting did not occur as tentatively scheduled," said meeting host Tobi Jaiyesimi, of Empire State Devel