{"id":7653,"date":"2015-10-28T23:06:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T04:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7653"},"modified":"2015-10-28T23:09:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T04:09:17","slug":"real_estate_interests_it_certainly_does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/10\/real_estate_interests_it_certainly_does.html","title":{"rendered":"Real Estate Interests, It Certainly Does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/de-blasios-stand-on-lich-site-disheartens-brooklyns-cobble-hill-neighborhood-1445908152\">As they say, write what you know<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Rebecca Katz, a former aide in the de Blasio administration, is now working with the developer, Fortis Property Group LLC, to persuade a skeptical community to support one of the plans.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. de Blasio&#8217;s administration has said little about the closed hospital since he took office, other than calling a news conference in early 2014 to celebrate a deal that would have required proposals for the LICH site to include &#8220;maximum health care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But his aides have long given up on a full-service hospital at the site and are instead trying to nail down the package of affordable units. &#8220;The whole situation became a total mess,&#8221; said one top adviser to the mayor.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>For Mr. de Blasio, operating from his Brooklyn political base, the proposal to close LICH provided a highly visible issue in 2013. He gained traction in a crowded field of candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for mayor. He aligned himself with unions and railed against &#8220;real estate interests&#8221; that wanted to redevelop the valuable site.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they say, write what you know: Rebecca Katz, a former aide in the de Blasio administration, is now working with the developer, Fortis Property Group LLC, to persuade a skeptical community to support one of the plans. Mr. de Blasio&#8217;s administration has said little about the closed hospital since he took office, other than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7655,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions\/7655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}