Catsimatidis Says He'll Bring Back Myrtle Market
If he builds it, a supermarket will come. John Catsimatidis tells the Daily News that if work begins on his maybe-it’ll-happen-maybe-it-won’t project at 162 Myrtle within the next couple months, a supermarket and Duane Reade “should be done within a year if the world doesn’t fall apart with the real estate market.” The old Associated…
If he builds it, a supermarket will come. John Catsimatidis tells the Daily News that if work begins on his maybe-it’ll-happen-maybe-it-won’t project at 162 Myrtle within the next couple months, a supermarket and Duane Reade “should be done within a year if the world doesn’t fall apart with the real estate market.” The old Associated on Myrtle was torn down to make way for development, leaving many residents in nearby public housing without an easy grocery option. Councilwoman Letitia James says she doesn’t totally buy Catsimatidis’s promise to open a supermarket as part of his 660-unit, mixed-use, multi-building project. “It’s wonderful if that’s the case, but I’ll need to see it in writing,” says James.
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Oh my God, 2:59, say it ain’t so. If this it true, well, it’s time to move to East New York. At least Charles Barron will be gone.
2:09 – please get back on your meds asap.
Uh, can you enumerate T James’ accomplishments?
Uh, 1:18, I hate to be the one to break it to ya, but finishing Councilman Davis’s term didn’t count towards the term limit of Tish. She can run again, and I even heard that she thinks she can become Council Speaker because of her, by then, seniority.
You obviously have a pea-sized brain. Learn to read in between the lines. No supermarkets were ever regulated or any stores, nor your rant. But it can’t hurt to regulated certain things now that idol Bush has ruined the country – like the rezoning laws, gas pricing, housing, construction, etc. It was the result of deregulation that allowed airline abuses, govt contracts and price gouging in many sectors like loopholes, if you get them. But I don’t expect you to. So stop mouthing off your ass to prove your misinformation and just curl up in your ignorance.
11:02 –
I really must be uninformed because I never heard that the locations of supermarkets and drug stores were ever regulated in the 1st place.
I stick with my original opinion – you are nuts
Hey 1:18 what’s her (Tish’s)story? I could never quite figure her out. Is she pro-development / anti-development? Presumably, she’s anti-gentrification…but where is/was her power base…in other words, who is the constiuency that put her on the council?
The above quote typifies Tish James’s deficient negotiation skills. Her abrasiveness, paranoia, and inability to forge collaborative relationships has hurt her district more than a few times. She “speaks truth to power” (e.g. council speakers, developers, cultural institutions, etc.) and then later uses their dislike of her as an excuse to explain why she could not deliver, namely on her purported dedication to affordable housing.
She is nearing the end of two terms in the city council and how many units of affordable housing has she secured for her district? As of 2009, she’s gone and I hope that her replacement cares more about the constituents than marching in the street to protest Bruce Ratner.
Then shut yer trap, BL.