Good on Forest City redevelopment
The question I ask is why are we discussing this now? When the City granted Forest City the exclusive rights to develop the designated property instead of the proposals of any other developers or of any individual property owners, surely they should have done so with all the facts before them about what Forest City was willing to invest and what the City was willing to invest. I believe we need to completely change the way we do business at City Hall. And, a good place to start is to reopen all exclusive rights developer agreements and to, together, discuss costs, investments of all parties, timelines, etc. and, of course, to do so with maximum community and stakeholder input. Barring that, the City could help defray parts of costs in public use areas, but most certainly should not be willing to invest solely in that redevelopment project over all others, current or future.