Posted on 08/08/2010 3:01:33 PM PDT by spacejunkie01
Bingo on your second point but on the first, it is mysteriously the only building on the block not designated as a landmark by the commission. How long before they eventually take over the entire block with back room special deals with the city and the commission?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmkbxEmNUK0
There’s more to the story....if you can understand the language spoken...please translate for us...what is being said?
How do you know when a MUZZIE is not telling the truth? His lips are moving! Gee, the same can be said about Obama!
This mosque is going to be a target.
So.....does this mean if you want to influence things, you have to boycott Con Ed? Hmm. That’d separate the men from the boys!
Hmmm ... setting the stage for an eminent domain grab of the Con Ed property?
Interesting turn of events here.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-108.ZO.html
Justice Stevens delivered the opinion of the Court.
In 2000, the city of New London approved a development plan that, in the words of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, was “projected to create in excess of 1,000 jobs, to increase tax and other revenues, and to revitalize an economically distressed city, including its downtown and waterfront areas.” 268 Conn. 1, 5, 843 A. 2d 500, 507 (2004). In assembling the land needed for this project, the city’s development agent has purchased property from willing sellers and proposes to use the power of eminent domain to acquire the remainder of the property from unwilling owners in exchange for just compensation. The question presented is whether the city’s proposed disposition of this property qualifies as a “public use” within the meaning of the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
Speaking of Kelo, karma is a bitch!
The promised economic benefits fail to materialize
In September 2009, the land where Susette Kelo’s home had once stood was an empty lot, and the promised 3,169 new jobs and $1.2 million a year in tax revenues had not materialized. The land was never deeded back to the original homeowners, most of whom have left New London for nearby communities.[2]
In addition, in September 2009, Pfizer, whose upscale employees were supposed to be the clientele of the Fort Trumbull redevelopment project, completed its merger with Wyeth, resulting in a consolidation of research facilities of the two companies. Shortly after the merger closed, Pfizer decided to close its New London facility in favor of one across the Thames River in nearby Groton by 2011; this move coincides with the expiration of tax breaks on the New London campus that also expire by 2011, when Pfizer’s tax bill on the property would have increased almost fivefold.[17][18]
After the Pfizer announcement, the San Francisco Chronicle in its lead editorial called the Kelo decision infamous:
The well-laid plans of redevelopers, however, did not pan out. The land where Suzette Kelo’s little pink house once stood remains undeveloped. The proposed hotel-retail-condo “urban village” has not been built. And earlier this month, Pfizer Inc. announced that it is closing the $350 million research center in New London that was the anchor for the New London redevelopment plan, and will be relocating some 1,500 jobs.[19]
The Chronicle editorial quoted from the New York Times:
“They stole our home for economic development,” ousted homeowner Michael Cristofaro told the New York Times. “It was all for Pfizer, and now they get up and walk away.”
I’m sure that the ruling class in the City will be happy to condemn the needed property as blighted and turn it over to the developers.
Who are the rubes? Those superior, know-it-all, elitists get rolled again. Hey, Bernie Madoff didn't fleece any poor people, only the wealthy. Dumb*ss's.
Wouldn’t Con Ed have to take the highest bid? A good place for a Holocaust Remembrance Museum.
Just $200 in donations?? Something fishy about this...
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