Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Development

Rally for Smart Growth in Brooklyn

By Aaron Naparstek | | No Comments
Sunday, July 16, 2 pm GRAND ARMY PLAZARally Starts at 2 pmGather at 1:30 pm On Sunday, July 16th, at 2 p.m., please join thousands of your friends and neighbors at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza to rally in favor of appropriate, inclusive, and innovative development with truly affordable housing and sustainable jobs, and against Forest City […]

Atlantic Yards Traffic and Parking

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Continuing to ask the questions that don’t seem to occur to his salaried colleagues in the local media, Atlantic Yards Report’s Norman Oder has recently been digging in to the critical issues of traffic and parking around Forest City Ratner’s massive urban renewal plan for Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Yesterday, Oder questioned the Empire State Development Corporation’s […]

A Better Way To Do Development

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Otis White’s Civic Strategies newsletter reports on a Los Angeles-based real estate developer, Rick Caruso, who is finding that the most effective way to get big development projects done is to work with neighborhood and community groups on plans and designs from the very beginning rather than shutting them out of the process: "…Caruso’s secret […]

Car Fight

By Aaron Naparstek | | 9 Comments
Last night’s public hearing on the proposed NASCAR track on Staten Island turned into a melee. Union members, many of whom were apparently shipped in by the developer, shouted down and physically intimidated community people who had come out to voice concerns about the project. New York 1 showed video last night of one particularly […]