There will be more on this in a news story soon, but Mayor William Stortz said this week that had the council backed the negotiated deal he made with Ocean State back in March, he’s confident the city would be tearing down the mall instead of waiting, watching and wondering.
“In my mind, I believe that if the council had taken the deal, the mall would be under demolition by now,” the mayor said.
“Speculation at best,” fired back city Councilor Art Ward, a Democrat running for mayor.
Another Democratic mayoral contender, city Councilor Ellen Zoppo, said she is not sure how Stortz can say the mall would be demolished if the “sweetheart deal” had been approved given that “two environmental remediation contracts have been gathering dust for weeks, and the time frame for remediation is months, not weeks.”
City Councilor Craig Minor said that even if the council had backed the settlement, Stortz “would have found some other excuse to delay knocking it down, because his goal is to leave Bristol in November exactly the way he found it two years ago.”
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2 comments:
Gee that doesn't say much for you Minor - weren't you on the council 2 years ago? Guess you didn't do much either. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Must be the same weapon Ellen used on her foot!
Mildred Harris
It really doesn't take a triple digit IQ to see that the basic problem with the Mall fiasco is that the Democrats refuse to allow a Republican to come in a repair the mess they made before he got there .
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