Is this the "shared sacrafice" that Christie keeps talking about? For Xanadu Mall, Stalled and Scorned, Deal May Offer New Life It has been called “the ugliest damn building in New Jersey and maybe America,” has bedeviled three governors and has burned through two developers. Despite $1.9 billion spent, it is still an unfinished pile of concrete, steel and garish pastel panels. Triple Five, a... [more]
Is this the "shared sacrafice" that Christie keeps talking about?
For Xanadu Mall, Stalled and Scorned, Deal May Offer New Life
It has been called “the ugliest damn building in New Jersey and maybe America,” has bedeviled three governors and has burned through two developers. Despite $1.9 billion spent, it is still an unfinished pile of concrete, steel and garish pastel panels.
Triple Five, a conglomerate based in Canada, would christen Xanadu as American Dream@Meadowlands. The company would invest more than $1 billion, add a large indoor water park and a skating rink and keep the 600-foot indoor ski slope.
Though the Christie administration has criticized Xanadu, once calling it a “failed business model,” and the governor said he was uncomfortable getting the state involved in private development, the state would provide $180 million to $200 million in low-interest financing and forfeit a similar amount in future sales-tax revenue.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/nyregion/deal-reached-to-expand-xanadu-mall-project-in-nj.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
It is far more important to fire teachers and to sbusidze INDOOR water parks. Has anyone ever sene an indoor water park or indoor ski slope before? I haven't. I've always wanted to go skiing in the middle of the summer. Looks like I will have my chance..
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Frank Lautenberg should now try to earn the name he has on the Secaucus station. If he can't turn this around to the benefit of NJ, they out to wipe his name off, Brendan Byrne style.
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How does a living person get a building named after them? I thought you have to be dead? I gues there is a different standard when your a US Senator. For goodness sake, NOTHING was named after Washington or Lincoln when they were alive.
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That evil kill-joy little troll Fiorello Aytch LaGuardia started it with the municipal airport -- named for him while he was still in office. Not even El Generalisito y Major Asshole Boston Bloomberg had the nerve to do that (try as he does to build something big and public, like a midtown stadium, in the hope that everyone will step on one another to be the first to name it for him).
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I took the Koch Bridge to LaGuardia Airport recently.
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Response by Wbottom
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i get it:
Chris Christie "CHRISTENS"
def.: makes exception to provide subsidies (on backs of middle-class upon which he forces less service and higher taxes) for preferred, graft-riddled project
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Would that be the Koch bridge as in Ed Koch or the Koch briefge as in the Koch Brothers??? LOL
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Let me get this straight... better the thing rots and the state gets NOTHING (except an eyesore) than to give them a break in order to turn it revenue-producing and get SOME tax.
Brilliant once again from alpo!
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I know people who could not complete their hosues because they ran out of money. Where are their subsidies?
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Socialist, I love NJ as much as the next guy. Let's be reasonable, NJ is basically a big strip mall + parking. NJ giving a subsidy to a mall is not a big deal.
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Where are my subsidies? Where are my farm subsidies? I want some of those. If Bon Jovi gets them, then so should I.
"I know people who could not complete their hosues because they ran out of money. Where are their subsidies?
Uh, socialist, you're aware that there is something called a mortgage deduction?
That is a SUBSIDY.
For everyone who takes a mortgage.
Then the tax credit last year.
You want MORE subsidies for buyers?
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Christie is refusing to repay the feds $271 million from the cancelled train tunnel. If he does not, they are going to chrge $50,000 a week in interest. Way to go Christie! Kepe flushing money down the toilet like it grows on trees.
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You do realize that MANY more people would brave the trip FROM NYC TO this mall (and surrounding stadiums, etc) if ONLY train service was better. PS - See post above mine.
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Chris Christie gives subsidies to Canada
The hits just keep on coming ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/30/nyregion/new-jersey-told-to-repay-us-for-hudson-tunnel-project.html
Frank Lautenberg should now try to earn the name he has on the Secaucus station. If he can't turn this around to the benefit of NJ, they out to wipe his name off, Brendan Byrne style.
How does a living person get a building named after them? I thought you have to be dead? I gues there is a different standard when your a US Senator. For goodness sake, NOTHING was named after Washington or Lincoln when they were alive.
That evil kill-joy little troll Fiorello Aytch LaGuardia started it with the municipal airport -- named for him while he was still in office. Not even El Generalisito y Major Asshole Boston Bloomberg had the nerve to do that (try as he does to build something big and public, like a midtown stadium, in the hope that everyone will step on one another to be the first to name it for him).
I took the Koch Bridge to LaGuardia Airport recently.
i get it:
Chris Christie "CHRISTENS"
def.: makes exception to provide subsidies (on backs of middle-class upon which he forces less service and higher taxes) for preferred, graft-riddled project
Would that be the Koch bridge as in Ed Koch or the Koch briefge as in the Koch Brothers??? LOL
Let me get this straight... better the thing rots and the state gets NOTHING (except an eyesore) than to give them a break in order to turn it revenue-producing and get SOME tax.
Brilliant once again from alpo!
I know people who could not complete their hosues because they ran out of money. Where are their subsidies?
Socialist, I love NJ as much as the next guy. Let's be reasonable, NJ is basically a big strip mall + parking. NJ giving a subsidy to a mall is not a big deal.
Where are my subsidies? Where are my farm subsidies? I want some of those. If Bon Jovi gets them, then so should I.
Look, most of us can't control Bon Jovi. But we can wonder about this: http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/23109-angry-contest-columbiacounty-vs-paladino
"I know people who could not complete their hosues because they ran out of money. Where are their subsidies?
Uh, socialist, you're aware that there is something called a mortgage deduction?
That is a SUBSIDY.
For everyone who takes a mortgage.
Then the tax credit last year.
You want MORE subsidies for buyers?
Christie is refusing to repay the feds $271 million from the cancelled train tunnel. If he does not, they are going to chrge $50,000 a week in interest. Way to go Christie! Kepe flushing money down the toilet like it grows on trees.
You do realize that MANY more people would brave the trip FROM NYC TO this mall (and surrounding stadiums, etc) if ONLY train service was better. PS - See post above mine.