Another showdown which is guaranteed to bring about colorful debate, highly tense developers and loyal citizens into a public meeting goes down today. Forest-City Ratner has pretty much bought out all the right people thus far and it’s only a matter of time before public opinion is overshadowed with underhanded bribery.

But the dude is clever, he has signed into agreements saying that minority workers will get first shot at being employed through the project. He also says that the new $4.2 billion project will bring about more employment and better opportunities (NOT!) for the locals.

A huge concern that still remains is the schooling. If the proposed monstrosity is actually build, there will not be enough schools for children in the neighborhood to attend. Also the potential employees of the project will not be able to afford the fine retail/living quarters that will be created.

In any event the epic battle continues today!
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