So long Gowanus, see you in 12 years

Union Street wrote: [quote=brooklynpotter]do you think that bloomberg would be able to get this job launched during his term, then continued after he leaves office, then completed faster and properly?

I think the developer greed really could have worked in the community's favor this time. But b/c of Atlantic Yards, 4th Avenue, the disgusting Feder's condos all over the place, we're all so f'ing angry and disgusted at Bloomberg-enabled developers right now, we can't even think straight about this stuff anymore.

But, hey, we showed those greedy developers this time, didn't we! We're gonna keep raising our kids alongside a post-industrial toxic waste site for at least another 20 years just to spite them. Looking forward to this summer's crop of vicious, baby-eating Gowanus Mosquitoes.

So you're saying that after we have been burned by the greed of Bloomberg enabled-developers (and don't forget the incredibly corrupt Dept of Buildings), that we were wrong to distrust them and things were going to be different with Gowanus? Show me an instance in Brooklyn where this greed benefited Brooklyn.

Perhaps if they were upfront and TRUSTWORTHY during the past decade or so, we might not have rejected their ideas out of hand. The toxic site has been there for decades already, at this point what's another 30 years.

I'm sorry but you are wrong on this point.