To The Editor [Queens Tribune 1/24/2013]:
In response to your article and editorial in the Jan. 10-16 issue regarding the proposed MLS stadium in FMCP, where’s the incentive for Major League Soccer to enter into a straight-forward business arrangement with the Mets organization when seemingly they have been promised acres and acres of Flushing Meadows Corona Park land for free? If someone in the City offers to give away Queens parkland to a private commercial developer, can offers for Central, Prospect or Van Cortlandt Parks be far off? Is any park land safe from development? There are obvious alternate locations for a Queens soccer stadium in Willets and College Point Industrial areas or Aqueduct, but the catch is the land will not be free.
Arne Abramowitz
FMCP Administrator
1986-1993
In response to your article and editorial in the Jan. 10-16 issue regarding the proposed MLS stadium in FMCP, where’s the incentive for Major League Soccer to enter into a straight-forward business arrangement with the Mets organization when seemingly they have been promised acres and acres of Flushing Meadows Corona Park land for free? If someone in the City offers to give away Queens parkland to a private commercial developer, can offers for Central, Prospect or Van Cortlandt Parks be far off? Is any park land safe from development? There are obvious alternate locations for a Queens soccer stadium in Willets and College Point Industrial areas or Aqueduct, but the catch is the land will not be free.
Arne Abramowitz
FMCP Administrator
1986-1993
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