Summary
It's pretty clear that the nobody-elected-them crowd charged with developing Canal Side, a.k.a. Bass Pro, has no intention of negotiating a community benefits agreement. They've been sounding that drum beat in the public utterances of Jordan Levy, chairman of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp., and through other assorted avenues.
What's got Levy and company all worked up is that the Common Council -- which, I will note, is elected by somebody -- going strongly on record in support of a community benefits agreement. To the point where it has said, "no CBA, no transfer of land to make portions of the project happen."See the full content of this document
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Playing Hardball On the Waterfront
The coalition supporting the CBA is broad based -- a who's who of the region's progressive community. It reached out to the development corporation...
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