Posted on 08/30/2015 11:45:24 AM PDT by GeronL
In 2012, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave Donald Trump control of a $236 million public golf course at Ferry Point and threw in a slew of giveaways that include a low revenue-sharing plan with the city and free water. No other city golf course enjoys these perks.
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How many ways do you spell sweetheart deal?
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg apparently wasn’t satisfied with simply handing Donald Trump control over one of the most expensive public golf courses ever built in this country – the new $236 million, 18-hole Parks Department course scheduled to open next spring at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx.
Bloomberg’s aides quietly added a slew of financial giveaways in the 2012 deal with The Donald that no other city golf course concessionaire enjoys, a Daily News review of Parks Department golf contracts has found.
Those giveaways include: no concession fees for four years; then decades of extraordinarily low revenue-sharing with the city; tens of millions of gallons of free water annually; even a five-year delay for Trump to build a $10 million clubhouse, his only major capital investment in the project.
Start with the greens fees, the basic charge for a round of golf; virtually all of the city’s existing 13 public golf courses charge $48 per person during weekend peak hours, higher for non-city residents.
But the new Trump National Golf Course at Ferry Point plans to charge nearly three times as much — $125 per person.
Trump’s split of revenues with the city, however, will be far less than all other courses.
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“The Art of the Deal”
He drives a hard bargain, you can take it or leave it.
So your point is that you’d rather have someone like Bloomberg negotiating with the Iranians and the Chinese?
Looks like Trump walked into that office and said, “I want Deal!” and got it!
Seriously, geron? You had to go back a year, just to dig this piece of cr@p up?
What laws did Trump break?
How much extra course fees does the Trump name bring in, compared to no name?
How much revenue does Trump bring to the city, via business groups playing golf, as part of their meeting and convention schedule?
Honestly, you sound like a jealous and scorned ex.
LOL, he has made many deals like this - that’s why he is rich and most of us aren’t. Of course, he did have some starting capital, but he took that and made a fortune. The OP probably posted this as a it piece, but I see it as a positive - the man knows how to deal. If he can do that for our country - then shazam -
Looks like Trump got himself a good deal. I’m looking forward to him being America’s chief negotiator.
Wish Trump would do something with our local course.
Sounds like Trump made a GREAT deal, again!
That is the person America needs in the Whitehouse, making deals for America.
What should he have done instead GeronL?
Honestly.
I see that golf course whenever I drive over the Whitestone Bridge. Used to be a dump. Trump did a great job turning that spot into a jewel that New Yorkers can be proud of.
The art of the deal - Oreos and cars made in Mexico or China, and that is BAD!
But his stuff made overseas in China or Mexico and that is GOOD!
That is the mentality of the Trump supporter.
Trump good, Carson bad!
Eminent Domain for Trump and a little old lady gets the boot and that is GOOD! Anyone else does it and that is bad, real BAD.
Trump supporter in a nutshell, sad but true: “Fire good, cave good, Trump good!”
So Trump wasn’t kidding when he said he knows how to make a deal.
Who are the real dumbasses in this picture?
Blasphemer!
Little old lady refused his offer of $2 million. Her grandson just sold it for 500k to Icahn. She never got the boot - and he did not try to cheat her.
But, you know this, but the truth doesn't make a good hit piece.
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg apparently wasn’t satisfied with simply handing Donald Trump control over one of the most expensive public golf courses ever built in this country – the new $236 million, 18-hole Parks Department course scheduled to open next spring at Ferry Point Park in the Bronx.You and Juan Gonzalez (what a coincidence) are trying to knock Trump for being handed this deal?Bloomberg’s aides quietly added a slew of financial giveaways in the 2012 deal with The Donald that no other city golf course concessionaire enjoys
Besides Bloomberg, who are the real dumbasses in this picture?
EXAMPLE:
CRONY capitalism AT WORK... in federal, state, and local politics..
electing a crony capitaist as President is the HIGHTH OF STUPIDITY..
Even more stupid then electing Barack Obama.. much more..
OBAMA—> socialist marxist... (left-wing)
TRUMP—> fascist socialist... (right-wing)
actually I may BE WRONG... it’s the SAME MISTAKE..
Who are the real dumbasses in this picture? ......I believe you addressed him.
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