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New York's Governor's Island Lives

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Chris Steins
12 January 2004 - 9:00am

Ending years of wrangling, a development advisor is selected to figure out what to do with the abandoned island. [Includes images.]

"The chosen team is headed by one David Malmuth, the man who dragged Michael Eisner to 42nd Street and the crumbling New Amsterdam Theater... With 150 acres of the island as its domain, the team will undertake a nine-month, $1.3 million feasibility study that should produce a series of RFQs and RFPs for developers who want to try their luck on this former Coast Guard post."

Full Story: Governor's Island Lives
Source: The Slatin Report, January 10, 2004
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This is in fact the kind of self-sufficient, self-sustaining 'village' community that Mahatma Gandhi -- the Father of the Nation -- dreamt of and wrote about in his books on India’s path to development.
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