Posted on 02/04/2005 9:07:52 AM PST by nypokerface
The United Nations has said its plans to renovate its headquarters at Turtle Bay will cost $1.2 billion.
That strikes Donald Trump as far too much. "The United Nations is a mess," the developer said yesterday, "and they're spending hundreds of millions of dollars unnecessarily on this project."
And he's not the only one. Several Manhattan real-estate experts told The New York Sun this week that renovating premium office space should cost a fraction, on a per-square-foot basis, of what U.N. officials expect to pay.
Furthermore, the $1.2 billion is not the whole tab. Construction of a 35-story, 900,000-square-foot "swing space" over Robert Moses Park, plus the 100,000-square-foot esplanade park that the United Nations Development Corporation says will be built into the East River, has a price tag of $650 million, which would be financed initially by bonds issued by that state-city corporation.
According to the United Nations' 2002 Capital Master Plan - which officials of the United Nations, the federal Government Accountability Office, and the State Department said is the operative proposal - the headquarters renovation will make upgrades to several structures at the U.N. campus. Under the Capital Master Plan, a total of 2,650,653 square feet will be renovated.
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When Donald Trump smacks you for excessive spending you know you are in trouble. It's like having Fat Ted telling you that you need to cut back on the drinking.
Puke, puke and more puke! The UN needs to be seen floating down the Seine on top of the overturned porta-potties of their work. The gall of the organization is just unconscionable.
Stop this madness and throw the anti-American UN out of this country. We will pay the moving costs to Cuba, an environment much more suitable to their member base.
It's a cesspool.
Exactly. Trump did not account for the 65% the UN officials have to skim off the top.
And Trump is used to dealing with mafia-controlled construction workers! The UN is worse.
"The United Nations is a mess,"
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The only intelligent thing to pass through this idiot's lips that I've ever heard.
I bet they could build office space in Haiti for a whole lot less. Plus, it would help the third world economies.
trump in the news
Oh, c'mon. The U.N. needs a nicer place to run away to.
Yes.
I vote to move the UN to Haiti
$1.2 Billion for renovations? Why not just sell their current real estate and buy an office building somewhere else in NYC? It would probably end up being a lot cheaper.
What did Haiti do to be inflicted with the UN?
1. Mooch from the UN
2. Be a thugocracy
ROFL
Does this mean the UN will get another new kitchen? See below:
The 600,000-dollar kitchen or why the UN is still relevant to the US
Yahoo! ^ | Wednesday, April 2, 2003 | AFP
Posted on 04/04/2003 10:14 AM PST by Willie Green
For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States will pay 600,000 dollars to renovate the kitchen at the residence of the US ambassador to the United Nations in a sign the world body may be relevant to Washington despite the imbroglio over Iraq.
Officials said Wednesday the State Department has approved the expenditure at the request of the envoy, John Negroponte, who had asked for the funds to remodel and expand the kitchen at the apartment in New York's famed Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
"Yeah, it's a lot of money, but it's a lot of work and it's worth it," said one department official, who like the others, spoke on condition of anonymity.
"We're in this for the long haul," the official said of continued US participation in the United Nations in the face of its failure to meet President George W. Bush's challenge to disarm Iraq or lose relevance and go the way of the now-defunct League of Nations.
Negroponte, who succeeds such renowned US diplomats as Henry Cabot Lodge, Adlai Stevenson, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Madeleine Albright in the UN post as well as the Waldorf residence, had complained that the 10- by 17-foot (three- by five-meter) kitchen was simply too small to accommodate the needs of guests at the multitude of functions he hosts, the officials said.
I think you're on to something.
TRump:
Kofi,,, You're FiRed!
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