PeninsulaKiddo, on Apr 10 2007, 12:40 AM, said:
"In Hackney's eyes..." I'll say! His name is rather descriptive - he sounds like a total hack.
I understand that there is a very important industrial component to this region, after all, we are a major hub for shipping and rail on the East Coast, however, an inner-city area that is on the rebound, replete with a growing number of residential units is NOT the place to plop a large industrial warehouse. And I agree vdogg, if he wanted the property, he should have taken it instead of crying like a spoiled infant because someone else got it first. That's how real estate works, I'm sorry he's completely ignorant of that.
I would not want Hackney for my lawyer. He doesn't do his research very well and he discredits himself in the process. He says they are heavy industry. There is no heavy industry there. All the industries like Titan are mostly storage and transport facilities. Titan never wanted to buy the Belharbour site in the past. That piece of land was for sale a long time before Truxton even sniffed at it. Hackney is just trying to make a name for himself by associating himself as much as possible with this project by commenting on what he has little or no experience with. It is better for him to assume and twist what he thinks is true and comment on it because he knows the press is going to take the side of an underdoggy and attack the "big bad developer". This reminds me of what O'Reilly did to Mayor Oberndorf recently. The press just needs to give the facts. What the paper is doing is very unethical and they should be held accountable for sensationalizing so much when it causes people to react negatively for the wrong reasons like Chesapeake's tax issue. I came from a post communist country and one thing I learned after I came to here was that uninformed people are easy to manipulate into doing irrational things -- which is why newspapers and media should be held to the highest ethical standards because their influence is powerful. Belharbour has been attacked by total misinformation, but even in Serbia the good of the people won and the good of South Norfolk, I believe, will win also. If the industry will just calm down, everyone can work to exist together. But Titan?? They are even nervous about the increase in Customs inspections. Maybe there "is" a bigger reason for not wanting Belharbour's residents around.
Edited by Serbian Underground, 10 April 2007 - 09:17 PM.
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