Murray Still Holding Out On Islanders
Alternate plan was supposed to be out by the end of June. Murray is blowing smoke.
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I don't live there but it baffles me in this economy
why wouldn’t th etown want this nice multi-billion $$$ complex to attract jobs and business. I live in an area in Maine that would love a plce like this, it would create an economic boom here.
Not In My Back Yard, mostly. Communities whose leaders feel comfortable the way things are like to pretend there aren’t festering development problems until it’s too late.
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A lot of it is, I believe, the nearby community of Garden City
It was laid out in the 19th c. There is no parking on residential streets. Even the garbage is picked up on the side or the back of residents’ houses. Everything has to be perfect. And, of course, there are very few folks with darker skin tones.
Many of the leading residents are also big in the Republican party and it is they who have been leading the charge against LH. Their rallying cry? We don’t want Queens next store. They say that over and over like a mantra. They don’t want that sort of development next door and I believe that they don’t want to open the door to large numbers of immigrant families which tend to predominate Queens nowadays. Just my theory.
I’d give them the benefit of the doubt and believe that the residents are just mis-informed and somehow believe they are going to have to spend a billion dollars of their tax money just to do the development. When the reality is that all Wang wants is the property and he is willing to foot the rest of the bill. At least that’s my understanding of the deal.
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I grew up next door in W Hempstead and went to church there
I know the place and have debated with several GC bloggers about LH. I am fairly confident that many of them are thinking this way.
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