Tag Archives: HRPT
HRPT VOTES NO TO YET ANOTHER PIER 40 DEVELOPER
Cites Unrealistic Budget and Revenue Projections
On Thursday, September 25 at the Hudson River Park Trust board meeting, director Connie Fishman read a prepared statement which ended the bid by the Camp Group, the last legal responder to the HRPT Request For Proposal, to repair and develop Pier 40 at West Houston Street.
After review by the [...]
ART AND THE PARK MISSING IN PIER 40 PROPOSAL
On Monday, September 15, the Camp Group made a presentation to the Community Board and the public of their plan for the 15 acres of Pier 40. They were seeking approval and comments before the “final” vote by the board of directors of the Hudson River Park Trust. (This is written a few days before [...]
Full StoryTrust Shoots Down Last Standing Proposal for Pier 40
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE!
In a dramatic move at its September 25th Board meeting, the Hudson River Park Trust, without taking a formal vote, announced that it would not move forward with the People’s Pier proposal to redevelop Pier 40. The Trust Board let the explanation come from former State Senator Franz Leichter, one of [...]
Hudson River Park Trust PR Firm Offers Group Discount
At the March 27 board meeting of the Hudson River Park Trust, the chairman of the advisory committee, Marc Ameruso (supposedly representing us civilians), suggested to chairperson Diana Taylor that it was “suspicious” that HRPT retained the Marino Group, a $90,000 a year PR firm. He remarked that, immediately after that hire, a bunch of [...]
Full StoryHRPT Hands off Pier 40 Solution to Rich Sports Parents
Given 90 Days to Develop Funding Plan With Only Remaining RFP Contender
At the March 27 board meeting, HRPT Chair Diana Taylor read a statement reportedly drafted by a recently retained $7500-a-month PR firm expressing “the need to take action as soon as possible” to end Pier 40’s deterioration before it leads to “the ultimate loss [...]
PRO-RELATED ARTICLE APPEARS IN CRAIN’S
Marc Ameruso, the head of the HRPT advisory board, called it “suspicious” that shortly after HRPT retained a $7,500 a month PR agency, the Marino Group, articles in favor of the Related Companies’ proposal for Pier 40 appeared in the Times, the Post and Crain’s New York Business.
Reprinted here is the article that appeared in [...]
Taylor Blows Her Cool
Taylor Heatedly Defends Hiring PR Firm After Times Runs Pro-Related Story
The chairman of the 50-person Hudson River Park Trust Advisory Council, Marc Ameruso, saved a bombshell for his last item at the very end of the March 27 HRPT board meeting. He asked why Taylor had, in the final days of the approval process, retained [...]
Statement by Diana Taylor, Chair of The Hudson River Park Trust, Regarding Pier 40
March 27, 2008
Recently the Trust sent a letter to users of Pier 40 advising them that our recent inspection had disclosed widespread cracks and spalling of the roof structure in a number of areas in the parking garage and elsewhere in the Pier 40 facility.
Thus far, two of our non-profit tenants have had to vacate [...]
