Westchester magazine has a story up today on Capelli’s sale of the Residence Inn at New Roc City, first reported by Talk if the Sound, which paints a bleak picture of Louis Cappelli and his impact (negative) on New Rochelle.
…don’t hold your breath waiting to see if the money really goes to helping poor New Rochelle. If ever there was a downtown left in the lurch by money-hungry developers who marched in with big plans and turned around and ran with their tails between their legs when the economy slumped, New Rochelle is it. It’s the 2010 poster child for abandoned hopes for urban revitalization.
Read the entire article here
This is from Westchester Magazine? ( I read the article)
I am shocked that Westchester Magazine would have a bad word to say about New Ro. Especially after all those articles telling me what a great place NR is to live because of restaraunts, open space (Think Flandreau Park) and diversity. Now we are a poster child for abandonded dreams. How did this get published? Westchester Magazine did you not let the Mayor edit the article before it went to press?
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