Stadium Discussion
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They’re not the biggest real estate blog, but they’re certainly not fringe either. I think they’re credible enough to presumptively trust this - or at least in the category of “trust, but verify.”
Exactly. Too many Big player names were dropped in the article for it not to have been researched.
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Seems significant that YIMBY named Viñoly as the architect without noting that he designed Man City's academy—that can't be a coincidence.
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if you don't love me at my 600+ pages of shitposting
you don't deserve me at my 1 day of possibly legit news
I love the fact that it also looks like at the bottom right hand side of the photo like an outdoor bar/gathering area perhaps?
lol i know what you meant to say but damn wtf happened
EDIT: okay now i look kinda stupid because the quote came out perfect but heres how it looks on my screen:
BTW, this isn't completely out of the blue:
That's from a NY Times article from September talking about the Belmont non-site.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/...ontentCollection=soccer®ion=stream&module=
That's from a NY Times article from September talking about the Belmont non-site.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/27/...ontentCollection=soccer®ion=stream&module=
As someone pointed out on Reddit, this is a state RFP (the article's wording was a little unclear on that) which does suggest that maybe there was something to the conspiratorial view of the Belmont bid. It also means that the mayor will have little to no role in the project, although it will probably still have to go through the City Council for the zoning special permit*. I wonder then if Willet's was their backup the whole time, or if they feel that there are too many potential pitfalls there to make it worth their time and investment (not an unreasonable view).
*Or not, as it looks like ESD can preempt zoning rules here (h/t Gotham Gator ) . Hey, hopefully that can speed up the timeline!
*Or not, as it looks like ESD can preempt zoning rules here (h/t Gotham Gator ) . Hey, hopefully that can speed up the timeline!
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Empire State Development Corporation always intended to give the Belmont site to the Islanders, but since that would have been problematic on a number of levels, they asked Related/CFG to put in a bid to make it look more legit, in exchange for getting this site.
Motherfucker I have too much shit I need to get done today for this
Also, now twitter is broken for me. Is this actually happening?
