QUESTION: Where is the information Requested | Re: JOIN US! Annual Jamboree ............
FriendsOfMacombs.com
Jamborees are nice but when is the Community-At-Large going to receive the information promised to them over 2 months ago regarding the Consultants on the Brownfield issue (as you know the Community was not involved with choosing these consultants) in the Valley of North Harlem with the additional information about the projects they have worked on previously.
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Greetings Dr. Samuels,
I have sent out a request for the information and I am still waiting. Upon receipt, I will forward
Best regards,
Patreinnah Acosta-Pelle
FriendsOfMacombs.com
- The report by these consultants is going to be revealed soon (even possibly to those in the community you (pre-)select to know the findings).
- The information is purposefully being provided so very late to
- Limit a thorough investigation and evaluation of these "consultants" by the Community-At-Large
- Blunt any Community-At-Large objection to the choice of these "consultants"
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The following are the advisors approved by HCCI and the New York State Department of State after a competitive bidding process to work on the HCCI Bradhurst Brownfield Opportunity Area study. Complete biographical information is contained on their respective websites. Additionally, Ms. Acosta-Pelle will assist you again in accessing any specific background information on each approved consultant.
HR&A Advisors, Inc. 99 Hudson Street, 3rd Floor ·
New York, NY 10013
(T): 212.977.5597 · (F): 212.977.6202.
· www.hraadvisors.com
· WXY123
wxystudio.com
CLAIRE WEISZ Pricipal
Claire Weisz is a founding partner of New York design firm WXY Architecture + Urban Design. Since receiving the Young Architects Award in 1993, the firm has won several AIA and ASLA awards and was featured as a 2006 Design Innovator by Chrysler/House Beautiful. The firm was one of The Architectural League of New York’s New York Designs awardees in 2006 and again in 2009: current work includes both urban and architectural projects. Weisz received her professional degree from the University of Toronto and her Master’s in architecture from Yale University. She was the editor of the AD issue "Extreme Sites: Greening the Brownfield" and a recipient of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts for the Chinatown DesignLab among other projects, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Weisz was on the founding board for The Design Trust for Public Space and its co-executive director. Her firm’s work has been widely published and exhibited, including at the German Center for Architecture DAZ in Berlin and the Center for Architecture in New York. Weisz is on the faculty of NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and has taught and lectured at Yale University, Parsons’ Graduate Program in the School of Constructed Environments, Columbia University, NJIT, The Architectural League and The Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture.
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Malcolm Punter
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From: FriendsOfMacombs.com [mailto:fom...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 10:24 PM
To: Patreinnah Pelle
Cc: Malcolm Punter; Jelain Henderickson; Donald Mack
Subject: Re: QUESTION: Where is the information Requested | Re: JOIN US! Annual Jamboree ............
FriendsOfMacombs.com
As you may recall Ms. Pelle the information about the consultants (on which the Community-At-Large was not initially consulted and who were not ultimately chosen by the Community-At-Large) were apparently provided initially to a limited chosen few.
A list of individual consultant names have not been provided openly to the Community-At-Large (although it has been repeatedly requested) to even allow the Community-At-Large to conduct individual research if it even wanted to do it.
Hopping around reviewing websites of consultants would present the Community with a time consuming labyrinthine style search for information. An unnecessary burden for a Community-At-Large who should have been involved with an open "Brownfield" process from the beginning.
HCCI and all involved in the "sneakiness" of this process should stop trying to get the Community-At-Large to accept their "underhanded" approach and just do the right thing.
The "RIGHT THING" for HCCI in particular would possibly have been,
- To engage the community openly with "real" community outreach and not try to use a selected group of people to make decisions for an entire Community.
- To provide the information promised 3 months ago on the consultants in a comprehensive document format.
- To apologize to the Community for not having a consistent open process regarding the Brownfield issue and decision making about the Brownfield issue (on the "Bad" property).
- To beg the Community for forgiveness "on bended knee" for HCCI manipulating the development process to deny the community a "State of the Art" Library and "State of the Art" Multi-functional Facility that had been in the planning for 30 years and allow HCCI to build housing to make money.
- To beg the Community for forgiveness "on bended knee" for HCCI taking development issues to Community Board 10 before presenting them to the affected community and receiving the Community-At-Large approval for the development projects (On the "Good" Property).
- To beg the Community for forgiveness "on bended knee" for HCCI not protecting the ability of the Community-At-Large to continue to live and stay in the neighborhood the Residents grew up in and for not building housing that would have allowed former residents to come back to their community.
You have an enjoyable weekend as well.
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K. Samuels, MD--
Coordinating Member / FriendsOfMacombs.com
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Malcolm Punter
Director of Real Estate
Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc.
2854 Frederick Douglass Boulevard
New York, New York 10039
Tel. 212-281-4887 x 113
Fax. 212-283-2194
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From: Patreinnah Pelle
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 12:57 PM
To: FriendsOfMacombs.com; Malcolm Punter
Cc: Jelain Henderickson; Donald Mack
Subject: RE: QUESTION: Where is the information Requested | Re: JOIN US! Annual Jamboree ............
As you may recall Dr. Samuels the websites were forwarded previously which contain immense information regarding these consultants.
We know that the bios were promised; in retrospect we always recommend that independent research be conducted by oneself to receive the necessary information at large.
We have entered the age of technology were everything is available via internet.
Feel free to continue to search for information regarding these consultants as all information is made public.
Have a wonderful weekend
Patreinnah Acosta-Pelle
Business Development Advisor
Bradhurst Merchants Association
c/o
Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement, Inc.