Agenda for Tuesday meeting suggests master developer Greenland will be absent. So, no update on long-pending platform or 2025 affordable housing deadline?
There's an important clue in the agenda (below), just circulated this afternoon, for tomorrow's Quality of Life meeting. (My preview here.)
There will be presentations, likely by Tobi Jaiyesimi of Empire State Development (ESD), on both the ESD and the advisory Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation. There will be a presentation by a representative of the Barclays Center.
And there will be a presentation by a representative of TF Cornerstone, surely about progress on 595 Dean (B12/B13), perhaps keyed to the launch of market-rate rentals and/or the affordable housing lottery.
But there will be no representative of master developer Greenland Forest City Partners, dominated by
Greenland USA. That means Greenland will get to avoid the obvious questions:
- why haven't they started the platform, which was supposed to launch in mid-2022?
- if there's no plan to build 876 new affordable units to meet the 2025 affordable housing deadline, are they asking for an extension and/or a way to avoid the $2,000 month fines for each missing unit?
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