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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“How many ways do you spell sweetheart deal?”
top of the list?
imademocrat
There’s alot of backstory to that property. It was a landfill in the 70’s.
It’s not like Bloomberg handed Trump the keys to a working golf course.
When out of state Golfers were paying $90 to play Torrey, I, as a resident of San Diego with free park and recreations card payed $18. This was in the 80’s. I hear it’s like $48/$250 now.
Wonder if Mr. Gonzalez has ever written a similar article that was aimed at a DemoncRAT?
LOL! Looking for a scandal? Check Hillary’s emails!!!
Pretty cool. People just throw money at him, including the liberal loons.
Hard to believe you posted an article that makes Trump look good. Are you having a change of heart?
trump is a Democrat
Right now the country needs a Patton and not an Ike.
robbing taxpayers makes him look good.... really
Puh-lease. You’re starting to descend into NRO type madness. Get help before it’s too late.
Trump is a Democrat or a RINO.... little difference.
show your work
Right now the country needs a Patton and not an Ike.
With Trump what they’ll get is a Mussolini not a Stalin..
They think it’s a bad deal for the city, but blame Trump instead of Bloomberg.
Boy you and old Nickcarra-something, foam at the mouth over the old Donald dont ya? Its sad and amusing at the same time kind of like having to turn your head and look at a circus sideshow freak. You may want to invest in a padded room and stock up on some Thorazine. Good times.
Sweetheart deal between a businessman and a politician. Now FR-approved.
If you want to call people stupid don’t say “HIGHTH.”
trump is not any kind of conservative
that is my only point
he is a phony
That is all I am saying.
Apparently this does not matter to the slobbering masses of his supporters.
The OP attempted to turn something positive into something negative. Your post is check and mate.
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