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[quote=Anonymous]Eric Goulet has been personally posting on neighborhood listservs saying the best alternative for overcrowding in Ward 3 is to buy/lease the Whittle School. Is this a realistic option or sound byte? It was a big piece of his campaign platform.

Does he not know that the entire building is unbuilt..only one of 6 pods is finished--not seats for 2400 as his campaign verbiage suggests...there were 120 kids in there....Does he not know the landlord who built the building is suing the leasing agent, the leasing agent is counter suing, the contractors who were never paid and left work unfinished have filed over a hundred million in liens and lawsuits while the debt has been resold several times over with Chinese financiers sitting on up to $70 million in more pending actions against Whittle personally who co-mingled most of the money meant for the build-out of the school?..not to mention the State Dept controlling the property?

Does he not read the news or do his homework or is he a master negotiator who could convince the city that this building, which is so expensive to heat due to the glass,  which was rejected by every developer in town and is a gaping construction hole,... is a viable option for Ward 3?

I like the idea..it would be awesome if the city would completely overpay to build out and operate at a loss, this bottomless pit and fix it up, but it sure sounds like either he didn't do any homework or he has some kind of inside knowledge that could get this done? Does anyone know if there are actual negotiations going on or if this is hype he is spreading around?[/quote]

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