Posted on 09/11/2008 6:30:47 PM PDT by kellynla
In a bid to jump-start the snail's-pace reconstruction at the site, the mayor called on Gov. Paterson to dismantle the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
Bloomberg branded the state agency "just another level of bureaucracy you don't need" - and in a power grab, he said its redevelopment mission should be "handed over" to City Hall.
Noting that one of LMDC's signature jobs is to demolish the toxic Deutsche Bank tower at 130 Liberty St., he said another agency, the Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center, is better suited to finishing the task by the July 2009 deadline. "The multilayers of authority between federal, state, city and private sector just keep getting in the way," he said. "...I think everybody is frustrated about the slow pace."
"It's the one agency that coordinates the work between the state, city and federal agencies in order to get things done downtown," Silver said. "Why switch horses in the middle of the race?"
Bloomberg said he was speaking out - in an Op-Ed piece in The Wall Street Journal and a Battery Park press conference - to advance what he termed his No. 1 priority for the site: completion of the World Trade Center Memorial in time for the 10th anniversary in 2011.
"No more excuses. No more delays," he said.
He also fired a fusillade at the Port Authority for standing in the way of that timetable with its grand scheme for a multibillion-dollar transportation hub at the site.
Arguing the mega-terminal is unbuildable in its current design, Bloomberg said, "It's too complicated to build and threatens to delay the memorial and the entire project. It must be scaled back."
The mayor's volleys were met with a deafening silence from some.
LMDC Chairman Avi Schick, who would be out of a job, declined to comment
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If the horse has broken leg, you don't keep racing.
It should never have been created. The LMDC gives voice to every nutjob that ever walked the streets of Manhattan - including Bloomie and Shelly Silver.
If they had given it to Trump, it would have been built already.
...and bankrupt, sold to the Japanese, resold to American investors, repurchased by Trump so that he could "revitalize" it, and a new design would have just been unveiled to make it ten times as gaudy and ugly as the original building Trump had built...
That’s the most ridiculous, over the top thing I’ve read on this website...and I’ve read alot.
The technical definition is “hyperbole”... which is also a staple of Donald Trump’s personality and reputation. Granted, not everyone could inherit millions of dollars and, with the help of clever investments, manage to have less than half of what he started with. That takes a special kind of man...
I guess you weren’t around NY in the early 1980’s when he built the ice rink and rescued that boondoggle...or his towers. The bottom line is that he gets things done. Whenever there’s success..there’s usually some failures...that’s the nature of th beast.
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