Looks like an attempt at a forced soft closure to OWS tomorrow morning with cleaning crews instead of riot police. Although I guess they will need the police too. Starting at 6:00am the park owners will begin to clean the park in three stages, with protesters needing to leave each section of the park during its' cleaning phase. Upon reopening each section the park owners have asked the City to help them enforce the park rules which prohibit laying down on the ground, covering the ground with tarps or tents, storing personal items on park grounds, etc... So unless protesters can sleep standing up it looks like it's over. Just a matter of how quietly they will go.
who owns the park?
Brookfield Properties owns the park. I don't know all the details. I assume they have the park in exchange for building other things down there (I think there is a rule that you have to give a certain small percentage of your total commercial square footage for public use?)
Looks like they backed off for the moment.
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- jim 10-13-2011 8:38 pm
who owns the park?
- linda 10-13-2011 9:53 pm [add a comment]
Brookfield Properties owns the park. I don't know all the details. I assume they have the park in exchange for building other things down there (I think there is a rule that you have to give a certain small percentage of your total commercial square footage for public use?)
Looks like they backed off for the moment.
- jim 10-14-2011 3:20 pm [add a comment]