Another weblog look at Battery Park recovery
Read, Drink and Be Merry takes another look at post-flooding progress in the Battery Park neighborhood, and revises the city’s restoration grade to an “I” for “incomplete”. Here’s the skinny: Recently I gave Wilder and the city an ugly grade of D+ for the reconstruction of Battery Park. I’m thinking I may have been wrong in […]
Read, Drink and Be Merry takes another look at post-flooding progress in the Battery Park neighborhood, and revises the city’s restoration grade to an “I” for “incomplete”. Here’s the skinny:
Recently I gave Wilder and the city an ugly grade of D+ for the reconstruction of Battery Park. I’m thinking I may have been wrong in giving out that grade. You see, giving a grade or an evaluation implies that the project is complete and can now be assessed. In reality the project is not complete, the park is not open, empty lots abound with no sign of progress or even real clues as to what to expect. The bi-weekly newsletter the city promised to send after the floods to keep us informed of the project and it’s progress? We received two hard copies a couple of years ago (the same exact information with only the dates changed) before it went online. I’m not sure what bi-weekly means to the city of Richmond but it looks like 4 issues in over two years. The last one released claims it’s now a monthly, published in June…
I should have given them an ‘I’, for incomplete.
Four years after the floods started and two years after the collapse of the storm drains and the destruction of the park and $47 million dollars later where should we be? Frankly, a lot further along than we are.
Read on for specific observations of progress stalled.
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