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Tip of the Iceberg: Forest City Ratner Funds
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BUILD
was formed by Roger Green in order to create support for the project.
Excerpted from Roger
Green's Press statement at BAM Press Conference, Jan 23, 2004 (one month
after Ratner project is unveiled):
"An Open and Democratic process...
Finally, history teaches us that the process and the protocols
used toward the building of communities will inevitably impact the quality
of life within our communities. It is in this spirit that I have
joined with a number of community activists including Tenant representatives,
Block Association representatives, Precinct Council members, business and
home owners to establish a new organization entitled B.U.I.L.D - Brooklyn
United for Innovative Local Development. This organization will
serve as a voice for all of those concerned neighbors who seek to unite
our communities towards an enlightened development. B.U.I.L.D. will work
within the process that is being set-up by Brooklyn Borough President Marty
Markowitz to ensure community input into this historic development. I would
also like to acknowledge that Bertha Lewis of ACORN and Tenant activist
Darnell Canada among other will be reaching out to the affected neighborhoods
and the larger community so that this process might be as democratic
and transparent as possible."
BUILD came out in support of the Ratner project less than two weeks after
it was formed.
(See
BUILD timeline.)
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