Luxury Condo Building Planned For Jackson Avenue

Wow…Mac, you are clearly challenged. To equate prefabricated concrete Stalinist structures with this building belies so many levels of ignorance (architecture, engineering, taste, history, economic, logic) that I just don’t know where to start. Clearly, you have learned how to bleat out “Fox News Viewer” to anyone with a different view, just like your pseudo intellectual “Mother Jones Reader” (see, I can do it too!) clones, but not much else. Best of luck to you in life – you’re going to need it.

Mac, your logic is murky and inconsistent, but let’s see what we can do. So it looks like now you are not objecting to buildings being ugly, but being poorly built. The latter is a more reasonable position to take that I would not disagree with. Apparently your need to win an argument trumps continuity of thought.

Anyway, the article you cite does raise some important concerns, but also has flaws as it applies to this building (which I guess is now asthetically inert in your estimation). First, the article profiles buildings completed right after the crash in 2008. This doesn’t excuse cutting corners, but it does provide a likely cause of corners being cut.

Second, are the developers of this building the same as those profiled in the NYT article, or are you making wildly broad assumptions from a single data cluster about developers in general and across time? Indeed, it seems like the NYT article focuses on a few developers across their portfolio of projects, not the whole industry. I would also add that the NYT has seriously degraded their commitment to thorough investigation to pursue political point scoring, so I would be cautious about over interpreting anything from that paper.

Now, limits to the article aside, yes, there have been issues with new construction in LIC. Some have been in de novo projects, eg, the need to retrofit balconies at the View on Center Blvd, while others have been in projects rebuilding existing structures, eg, the ongoing plumbing issues at Arris Lofts. Construction is a complicated process, and, especially when trying to innovate techniques or preserve existing but old construction, things don’t always go perfectly. From what I understand, TF Cornerstone picked up much of the tab for addressing the former problem without the need for litigation, while the latter is still in litigation (underscoring the diversity among developers).

You seem to feel the need to feel the need to wildly generalize about an entire industry based on a few cherry-picked points (and obsess about communists). There are definitely players in the industry who get in over their head financially or plain don’t give a crap about their product and should be called to task for it, but most are serious about their work and do a good job. Perhaps it is you who should be a commentator on Fox News, since that kind of generalization is what they traffic in. The fact that you need to angrily call others idiots because they disagree with you or note flaws in your logic only further enhances your suitability for that Network and diminishes pretty much anything you have to say here.

And, yet again, Mac fails to make an argument, changes the subject, and attempts to insult. Here is my diagnosis of you: extreme immaturity with aggressive, possibly obsessive, behavioral tendencies. Likely to be socially frustrated with a deep rooted sense of inadequacy. Seriously, all that was missing from your post was “I know you are but what am I?”. I am now going to stop feeding the troll known as Mac.