[PRCo] Re: PAT's cuts

[Derrick Brashear]

On Saturday, December 4, 2010, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:

>
> On the subject of urban renewal (runinal?) ... Lancaster, PA tried it too.   David Schuyler, an F&M professor, wrote a book on the subject about how we tear down the bad neighborhoods without considering where the people will move ... it generally creates multiple bad neighborhoods as we move into the future.   He also talks about how we renewed downtown which was aging and tarnished but people went there.   No now no one goes to the block that was renewed. We will now renew it again.   The department store became a bomb fuse factory and now its empty.

The owner shafted his employees, dissolved and took his contracts to a
similarly named company in Florida. Still looking to make a buck from
the building.

>   The headquarters building for Armstrong Cork is empty.

The current Armstrong management has no real community commitment;
they're a global corporation and you should be happy you have any jobs
nearby.

> The hotel ... well it was shut down for an entire year because of unrepaired defects.   Why?  No one goes to city hotels so the city retaliated and built a new one two blocks away ... a convention center ... to compete with it.  That way we can have two empty hotels.   :<)   Who pays for it?   A tax on the suburban hotels / motels.

When your local news media is in bed with, nay, *is* the developer of
the hotel, well...


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Derrick