Navy Yard Fires Developer Tied to Kruger Scandal
On Friday The Real Deal reported that the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp had canned PA Associates, which was supposed to develop Admiral’s Row, after the firm’s founder was accused of “funneling $472,500 in bribes to State Senator Carl Kruger.” A Navy Yard spokesperson and Councilwoman Letitia James both said the project would still move…
On Friday The Real Deal reported that the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp had canned PA Associates, which was supposed to develop Admiral’s Row, after the firm’s founder was accused of “funneling $472,500 in bribes to State Senator Carl Kruger.” A Navy Yard spokesperson and Councilwoman Letitia James both said the project would still move forward, albeit with a different, unspecified developer. In other Kruger fallout news, The Post reported that a shopping complex in Mill Basin that Forest City Ratner is developing was held up for three years by the state senator because Kruger didn’t want the city to begin a public review on a non-FCR section of the site “and [FCR] was concerned that segmenting the project could hurt its plans, sources said.” Kruger and Bruce Bender, a vice president for government relations at FCR, “are longtime allies,” according to the article, though neither Bender or FCR were charged in the Kruger corruption suit.
Brooklyn Navy Yard Fires Development Firm Linked to Bribery Scheme [TRD]
“They saw the success of fairway in RedHook.” Since the concept of a supermarket at this location dates back to the mid-80s, that statement cannot be true. However, I agree NYCT should stop making the B69 an orphan.
“Why the parking lot?” So the operator can do enough volume that local customers don’t have to choose between a small over-priced specialty shop (e.g.: Concord Market, Fresh Fanatic) and small over-priced corner stores or a slightly larger but still not competitively price small supermarket (e.g.: Associated).
There were multiple respondents to the supermarket RFP. Unless the Navy Yard acted like assho’s during its negotiations with the bidders, it shouldn’t be too hard to get one of the runner-ups interested again.
Minard;
You’re saying that the locals need to drive across the street?
the idea here was for a big-box type supermarket that offers good food and low prices. Small food markets in the city tend to be very pricey and do not have a great selection.
One needs a car to lug home the stuff one buys at these mega-markets, and the folks in the projects do have private parking lots unlike the rest of us. So yes, the supermarket was intended for local use, and yes, a lot of the families in the projects have cars or have friends who do.
> though nice for Fort Greene, which has no supermarkets and never will due to lack of
> retail space
again, there’s a supermarket on the west side of farragut… take a look.
There’s a development site on myrtle.
There’s a supermarket on Jay and Tillary.
There’s Fresh Fanatic on Washington and Park.
There’s Associated on Myrtle.
There’s new stores opening daily on Park.
Why the parking lot?
There’s plenty of room in the area for a supermarket… they want this area for the giant parking lot…. so we can have speeders (like they now do on Van Brunt) whipping by Commodore Barry park… which actually IS for the community.
” the electeds that made this happen”
…isn’t this article showing that maybe bribes made this happen?
>Do you think the poor will be worse off with more grocery shopping opportunities?
There’s no reason ‘grocery opportunities’ need to be here.
Admirals Row never stood in the way of ‘grocery opportunities’. There’s another ‘grocery opportunity on Myrtle, an existing supermarket on the west side of farragut, a place on jay and tillary, new markets and bodegas on park… and acres of land on the whitman and farragut property.
If this grocery store was for locals, it wouldn’t need a huge parking lot.
I think the poor are worse off when their interests are disingenuously represented.
How many people from the Red Hook houses shop at Fairway? How many poor people thank Fairway for the higher rents in their area?
I think this project is a disaster for the poor… This area is at least nice and quiet… and commodore barry park is good for the community, and services it. Developers want Navy street and flushing to turn into a parkway like Van Brunt has.
steber, the leaders and the people in the housing developments, and the electeds that made this happen, feel it is good for the locals, who will make up vast majority of shoppers, though nice for Fort Greene, which has no supermarkets and never will due to lack of retail space
not either/or also for Vinegar Hill residents
admirals row is sad but useless other than as showpieces which no one can pay for as they cannot legally be used as
housing on grounds of navy yard according the yard charter
would never work as retail spaces….
streber, why does it have to be either-or?
Do you think the poor will be worse off with more grocery shopping opportunities?
Perhaps they should hire an exorcist.