Post by Clipper on May 28, 2012 12:48:14 GMT -5
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2 billion dollars spent to raze the old hospital on Roosevelt Island and to build a new "gleaming facility?"
Well there goes any chance of anything locating in the wonderful shovel ready site in Marcy.
Seems that Albany simply throws enough funding toward the Marcy project to keep area taxpayers fooled, appeased and hopeful that someday they will see the promised development of the high tech park that has been promised and not delivered for over a decade now.
I simply shook my head when I read about the 4 lane parkway that opened in that area recently. A beautiful 4 lane parkway with not one, but two round-abouts. A parkway that serves an area of nothing but woods and fields for the most part.
It is sad that money is spent and people's hopes are raised while the state simply promotes a different area with more political clout every time a high tech or chip fab venture is looking for a home.
If I were in that field, I would much rather be living and working in Marcy NY than on Roosevelt Island. I would much rather drive up that parkway to work, than change subway trains and buses two or three times to get to work. I would much rather raise my family in a single family dwelling and have my kids going to an upstate school than to have them living in an apartment and going a NYC area public school. It is all about political clout and money. Utica and CNY simply don't have either at this point in time. Looks rather dismal doesn't it?
2 billion dollars spent to raze the old hospital on Roosevelt Island and to build a new "gleaming facility?"
Well there goes any chance of anything locating in the wonderful shovel ready site in Marcy.
Seems that Albany simply throws enough funding toward the Marcy project to keep area taxpayers fooled, appeased and hopeful that someday they will see the promised development of the high tech park that has been promised and not delivered for over a decade now.
I simply shook my head when I read about the 4 lane parkway that opened in that area recently. A beautiful 4 lane parkway with not one, but two round-abouts. A parkway that serves an area of nothing but woods and fields for the most part.
It is sad that money is spent and people's hopes are raised while the state simply promotes a different area with more political clout every time a high tech or chip fab venture is looking for a home.
If I were in that field, I would much rather be living and working in Marcy NY than on Roosevelt Island. I would much rather drive up that parkway to work, than change subway trains and buses two or three times to get to work. I would much rather raise my family in a single family dwelling and have my kids going to an upstate school than to have them living in an apartment and going a NYC area public school. It is all about political clout and money. Utica and CNY simply don't have either at this point in time. Looks rather dismal doesn't it?
