This video is the first of three videos put together based on the presentation made by Shop Architects, the group retained by Reimagine New Rochelle to develop a plan for the New Rochelle Armory. An executive from Shawmut Design and Construction also presented and provided a detailed financial plan based on previous Shawmut projects.
In this 13 minute video, Todd Sigaty and Krista Ninavaggi of shop Architects explains who they are and the other members of the team they propose to work on the New Rochelle armory — Shawmut Design and Construction, Robert-Silman Associates (structural engineers), HR&A (analysts), Fort Pond Bay Company (restauranteur), Cosentini (acoustics), Bold (lighting design).
Reimagine New Rochelle is compromised of residents including those associated with Veterans groups, the Arts and Design and Construction. This first video is just under 13 minutes long.
shop Architects is a leading architectural firm whose most recent project, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, has been a media sensation. Home to the Brooklyn Nets, the venue will soon host the incomparable Barbara Streisand performing for the first time in her native borough on Oct. 11th. Other projects include Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport, the Columbia University School for the Arts and many others.
Shawmut Design and Construction is a leading construction management firm with offices in Boston, New York, Providence, Las Vegas, and New Haven. They have completed over 600 projects ranging from museums to sports venues to casinos to churches. Their client range includes Four Seasons Hotels, Harvard University, Wynn Resort & Casino, Tiffany & Co. and many more.
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Marc Jerome didn’t approve this
As Jerome is the biggest contributor to bramson, he gets final approval on all matters concerning the Armory. Monroe wants the Armory, they asked to control it and for the city to give it to them. Then later they said they never wanted anything to do with it. Monroe is a For Profit school using all of the city’s services and pays nearly nothing in taxes to the state or the city. I can’t find them anywhere on the tax roll for New Rochelle’s property taxes. New Rochelle was completely blindsided by Noam Bramson and Tim Idoni on this one. It would be a joke to also say their students contribute to the city’s sales tax! In fact their student are destroying the face of this city, they hold up traffic, commit crimes in downtown New Rochelle, and help to spur active gang activity all over the city. There are numerous fights every day which occur on the property, and we’ve heard of a MAJOR incident which occurred not too long ago which was covered up. Unfortunately there are people in the police department who will no longer cover things up for Noam Jerome.
Didn’t Bramson have a long
Didn’t Bramson have a long list of people who wanted the armory to be turned into a fruit stand? Oh no, I am mistaken, nobody asked Bramson to build a fruit stand there. That was his idea and his idea alone. Screw what the people want once again.
SO??????????????
WHAT exactly are the good citizens of New Rochelle going to DO about it?
Complain (or ‘bemoan’, per RC) here? Write letters to the editor? Write emails to City Hall? B&M?
All shouting into the wind. All useless. Idoni II and his paid-off cronies are laughing at you, all the way to the bank.
DO SOMETHING, good citizens of New Rochelle, or when the fruit stand/restaurant (I still find that HILARIOUS!) put up by the crooks in City Hall fails, and it will, that is the plan, the Armory will be demolished. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but it will. Count on it.
Mark my words.
Watch This Space!
More to be revealed. Putting up the videos is phase one.
Stay tuned.