I am taking this morning to do catch-up and clean-up on my inbox. I had lots of things I wanted to share with you….here’s one.
And a joint venture of Related Companies and Sterling Equities wants to build a huge mall to the west of Citi Field, on a parking lot that’s technically parkland. The joint venture has yet to commit to any sort of long-term funding for the park.
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“Unlike any other park, we have private entities that greatly benefit from our public space, and I believe that they should be held accountable to do a public-private partnership,” she said. “Parks the size of our park, like Prospect and Central Park, both have conservancies. I think that we need to really bring together an alliance, what I’m hoping to call it, with the idea of it being something like a conservancy, but where community members have a voice, where these entities have to commit to a onetime gift and maintenance.”