Eminent Domain, Atlantic Yards Brooklyn, and Beyond (tomorrow Oct 13)

Tomorrow night, I will be speaking at a fund-raiser for Brooklyn Speaks, and it has me thinking about real-estate development – as I begin to enter the field as a practitioner myself. When the Court of Appeals, approved “eminent domain” to seize private property in the Atlantic Yards footprint in 2009 it made an increasingly [...]

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Majora Carter on the Science Channel

Watch Majora explain how creating green projects and jobs set the stage for communities to see themselves in a different light. From there, beautiful things can happen in neighborhoods where people feel invested in their own economic and environmental well being.