"Thank goodness we ran this guy out of Pacifica. I'm so proud of our vision." (Jim Wagner)
| Don Peebles |
"I
would like to express my gratitude to the Mayor and to the City of New
York for the opportunity to restore and develop this very significant
building," said Joseph Chetrit of the Chetrit Group. "The Chetrit Group
looks forward to working with the City and the Lower Manhattan community
as this project moves forward."
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| New York, New York |
"On
behalf of The Peebles Corporation, we are honored by the trust Mayor
Bloomberg and the City of New York have placed in us by awarding The
Peebles Corporation such a significant and iconic landmark," said from R. Donahue
Peebles, Chairman and CEO of The Peebles Corporation.
"Since the inception of The Peebles Corporation, we have excelled in public-private partnerships and engaged in restoring and reusing landmark buildings for the purpose of historic preservation, economic development, job creation and community transformation. Over the past 25 years, we have continued this tradition in Washington, D.C., South Beach, Miami Beach, San Francisco and now New York City." Read Press Release, 3/5/13.
"Since the inception of The Peebles Corporation, we have excelled in public-private partnerships and engaged in restoring and reusing landmark buildings for the purpose of historic preservation, economic development, job creation and community transformation. Over the past 25 years, we have continued this tradition in Washington, D.C., South Beach, Miami Beach, San Francisco and now New York City." Read Press Release, 3/5/13.
Submitted by Jim Wagner
Posted by Kathy Meeh
43 comments:
Clearly, the man has gone on to bigger and much better things. He sure never needed us on his resume. Lucky he didn't get bogged down in Pathetica. As for us? Not so lucky.
He never needed to build anything here if the voters approved the rule change. At the time, flipping the property for big bucks was easy. Somebody else would have been stuck with it and he was out with his profit.
The man's not stupid, that's for sure.
Yes, by all means obstruct any development based upon stupid conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, an abandoned quarry that was our only redevelopment zone remains abandoned while the city slides towards bankruptcy.
Great plan, NIMBYs! Please go to the Resource Center and explain all the horrible things you imagine Peebles would have done while you also explain that the city can no longer afford to fund them.
1008 get real. your 1st para--you weren't even trying to make sense.
don't fret about the PRC. our tax-and-spend council knows that cutting out the PRC is political caca, but threatening to do so is a sure vote-getter for that tax they've always wanted. plus the PRC is a tides project and they aren't going to let it fail as long as the city being served continues some amount of financial support/buy in.
@1008 Stupid conspiracy theories? Business. Peebles always had an exit strategy because he really is a smart and very savvy developer. Always better to play with someone else's money.
But you people do not understand. Todd Bray, knows more then Peebles, and Tramell Crow combined.
He told them to pass on the quarry.
And Swenson.
Good enough for NYC but not Pacifica. We're so lucky our heros saved us from this evil out of town developer. Clearly all the awards and accolades Don Peebles has received from the likes of folks like President Obama are merely a cover for his scheme to take over the world.
Bravo friends of Pacifica!
Yes. The PRC will not run out of money as long as George Soros owns the democratic party. Their goal is to keep the people dependent. If the council decides to stop sending funds to the PRC , it will be a poor pr move, but it will continue to be funded no matter what. Ah, politics, no one cares about the truth.
I say stop funding the PRC. I would bet that it's doors do not close. All the propaganda in the world scaring the sheeple into believing we will starve to death if the PRC closes , will not stop the locals from funding it , like we use to before Tides took over. Maybe those locals will get back involved. PRC was doing just fine before Tides.
922, how much money do you contribute to the Pacifica Resource Center (PRC) each year?
That's what I thought.
"I would bet that it's doors do not close." The city should NOT support the PRC based upon your BET???? That's nice.
all I want for Christmas is a new scooter.
Right-wingers like 922 usually like to pretend that their good Christians, but Jesus would be disgusted with the way they want to treat people less off than themselves.
Let's be very clear.
The Pacificans who deserve credit for the destruction of any revenue generation capabilities of the quarry are:
Jim Vreeland
Pete deJarnatte
Julie Lancelle
Sue Digre
John Curtis
Peter Loeb
Dinah Verby
Robin Runneals
Tod Bray
Pete Shoemaker
Ed Howard
Pacificans for Sustainable Development
You forgot to list:
Nancy Hall
Andy Leone
Hey Bray, show us the letter Peebles Corp, asked his attorney to send you.
The cease and desist letter.
Oh and you forgot
Fred Howard
Peter Loeb
@115 etc don't forget the thousands of Pacificans who voted to put these folks in office, not once, but for as many as 4 terms. How do you explain that away? Pretty clear that whatever was being sold was being bought by most of the voters. The rhetoric has softened to fit the times, the alliances are more calculated, but I'm not seeing much substantial difference between this lot and the previous. Only Stone stands out from the rest--one vote out of five. Time will tell.
"don't forget the thousands of Pacificans who voted to put these folks in office, not once, but for as many as 4 terms. How do you explain that away?"
The previous hippie councils promised that Pacifica would be an environmental utopia with no revenues, i.e., taxes and fees, required.
Who wouldn't go for that?
@922 No, the PRC wouldn't be just fine without Tides. It wouldn't be here at all. Seven or eight years ago when the City of Pacifica decided it no longer wanted to be involved in providing social services and then cut loose the PRC, it committed to continue funding of $83,000 for three years. The loss of the city's administrative support left a huge vacuum and would have created unsustainable overhead costs. There was no way for the PRC, with a staff of two, to provide core direct services to the needy and also handle all the administrative functions for the agency. They found Tides to take care of all the overhead and allow them to continue their mission unchanged. This is what Tides does all over the country for many hundreds of non-profits. They take care of the daily details so the important work in the community continues uninterrupted.
While community volunteers are critical in fundraising and outreach, the core work of the PRC with clients cannot be done by volunteers. It is sensitve, highly-regulated, and complex and requires professional staff.
Without the umbrella provided by Tides the PRC would not have survived. Once the first three years of funding was up, the PRC has had to beg for each year of funding to help Pacificans in need. Going forward, cuts in city funding may be unavoidable. Tides could be instrumental in locating other funding, but care should be taken by Council in maintaining at least some city funding so that other funding sources know that Pacifica values the work done by the PRC. To cut out all city funding is a vote of no confidence.
This is not about politics, it's about people. People in Pacifica who need help and may slip between the cracks if it isn't available locally. To refer to them or people who care about them, as sheeple, is shameful. For council to place the PRC at a lower priority than high wages, rich benefits, and council doodads would be truly reprehensible.
Bankruptcy for a city comes in many forms...financial, moral, spiritual. Some should be feared more than others.
You also forgot to list
Planning Commission
Open Space Committee
Cecilia Quick
Dan Underhill, thinks the empty quarry is a vast revenue source for the city.
Read all about it on RIPTIDE.
lay off the schnapps
Sinai, people really voted for a promise of Utopia? No, not even in Pacifica. They got exactly what they voted for, but hindsight is always 20/20.
Sinai, has broke bread with the hippies.
Oh we forgot to add Pete Shoemaker to the list.
The city councils have been horrible since the days of Peter Loeb and Fred Howard
It's been a pretty steady downhill slide. Whether you agree with his politics or not, Loeb is probably the smartest councilperson we've ever had. Again whether you agree with the politics or not, Fred Howard cared about this town. It was personal with him. You don't see that level of intelligence or emotional connection anymore. Things change, good or bad, life goes on.
Anon@7:53, the rule is "No posting while under the influence."
previous councils have flat out lied about the city's finances in order to get re-elected.
Loeb smart and Howard cared? what next . . . vreeland was the most honest man to be mayor?
"sneaky" Pete Dejarnatt, said the city has $7.5 mil.
I had it explained to me that the cities reserves are even less then 2 weeks payroll.
during the 2006 election, Vreeland, Lancelle, and Digre all said the city had its healthiest economy in years, we don't need some carpetbagger from Miami developing the quarry. We will be fine. Property taxes are all we need (yes those same financial geniuses on the task force and anti hwy 1 group went along with this)
then what happens? the hippies get re-elected. And massive budget cuts ensue. oh the hilarity!!
then dejarnatt in 2008 says we have a $7 million surplus. First thing they do after he gets re-elected? yup, we are broke we need a sales tax. same people (PSD) that helped sink Measure L 2 years earlier.
they are good at fooling the voters but make no mistake, they have no plan and have never had a plan except to keep pacifica poor and stop the highway from working.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity. We keep electing hippies, both the declared ones and the closet-types, and we wonder why nothing changes. Incredible.
@438 in pacifica? politicians lie? cheesy small-time politicians lie to get re-elected? lie and hide info from the public? manipulate events to push an agenda? form crippling alliances?
yup, they'll do anything, anything at all, to stay on that very lucrative gravy-train. secure in the knowledge that we can't and won't do more than rant about sneaky pete and vreeland and hippies and make lists for the next few years.
Oh my gosh, that dimwit Bloomberg needs to talk to us Pacifica hippies so we can clue him in about how Peebles has a secret plan to cheat New York Citaaaah.
I will pay for a bus to ship the nobies to NYC to stop Peebles from ruining that town as well!
"sly" Len Stone is having a power struggle with Mary Ann.
Will the next Jimmy Vreeland please step forward
Anonymous 7:08 AM, please explain what you're talking about. Power struggle between councilmembers Stone and Nihart? What kind of "power struggle". And what does that have to do with past councilmember Vreeland. And why do we care?
Kathy,
Every group has to have an evil villan.
The control freak of the bunch who ran the city from behind the scenese Vreeland.
Just like how Sinai is the villan of this blog.
you post he removes.
thus the power struggle at world headquarters of Fix Pacifica.
Sinai is beloved by all.
I've rarely agreed with our council over the past decade, but "very lucrative gravy-train", 8:37?!?!
Just because we disagree with them doesn't mean that council members aren't trying to do what they think's best for the city with little remuneration and lots of s}*t from d-bags like you.
1013 Oh no, council is on a real good thing called the public employee gravy train. I guess gravy is relative, but this council (4 of 5) receive better pay and benefits for truly minimal participation than many other city councils in CA. Must we also now applaud the results of them doing, as you say, what they think is best, when the results are so pathetic? No.
1011 Beloved by all? Don't be common. Steve Sinai is revered. The man's a god.
@708 Do tell us more about the Stone v Nihart smackdown. Little Lenny should be very careful. He didn't go to the Vreeland school.
"..Sinai is the villain of this blog. you post he removes. thus the power struggle at world headquarters of Fix Pacifica." Anonymous 10:11 AM
Don't be confused, Anon, I am usually "the villain" who removes trash comments from this blog. Steve oversees, reviews, and sometimes restores borderline comments. Steve is your hero, and there is NO "power struggle at world headquarters Fix Pacifica". I mostly agree with Anonymous 12:39 AM, "The man's a god."
How does your "evil villains" reply explain your 9:35 AM comment? Are you suggesting councilmembers Stone and Nihart (both powerful) are "evil villains". If so for what reason, and what power struggle is their contest.
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