The Sad Thing Is How Close It Is To Reality

no land grab offers a bit of sunday humor:

Farce City Ratner, Prospect Park Alliance and City of New York
Announce deal for Olmstead Homestead

40 Acres of Prospect Park to be Adapted for Urban Mixed-Use Lifestyle Center

FarceCityRatner.gif(Brooklyn, NY) – April 1, 2007 – Farce City Ratner Companies (FCRC) today unveiled designs for Olmstead Homestead.

The Olmstead Homestead urban lifestyle center will contain 27 highrise towers at the Grand Army Plaza entrance of Prospect Park, comprising 2.3-million square feet of commercial space, 10.2-million square feet of affordable residential housing (12 deluxury units with over 8,000 units for support staff), and 17 acres of publicly accessible parks, including a polo field.

I would add one little tidbit: the Quaker graveyard (respected by the original park designers and left alone) would be razed and in its place a Frank Gehry designed 'museum of tolerance' too fantastic you say? look-ee here; even the staunchly pro Israel ADL couldn't stomach that, but apparently Frank could. Nice, sensetive, guy eh?