After all the noise over the past few weeks, you'd think that the biggest news in this morning's T&G would be about what happened at Mike Perotto's committee meeting with Young Park, which was scheduled for 4:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Here it is, twelve hours later, and I see that today's paper has come up on their website, but there's nothing. So, I surfed around to see what I could find.
There's monday's piece about the project in the Worcester BJ, which is, of course, predictably pro-Worcester (and who wouldn't want them to be?). It's got nothing new to say, however.
What IS news to me is this post in Worcester County Freedom Trail yesterday, entitled, "Don't Hold Your Breath on City Square, Park's History Isn't Great." But, there's really nothing new there, either, until you get down to the very last paragraph where some pretty serious allegations are made...
"Do I sound annoyed? You bet I am. Young Park is the developer who launched the housing development my family currently lives in. He walked out on the homeowners here part way through the project, declared bankruptcy, and left a number of us with thousands of dollars of work to do. If he walked out on Worcester once before, what’s to stop him from doing it again?"
WOW!
Now, maybe I'm just one of those ordinary folks who happened to miss all the news coverage concerning this developer's allegedly shady past, but if that's a true representation of Young Park's business past in Worcester, then there's a whole list of public officials that I'd like to start lambasting for even considering doing business with this guy.
I posted a comment on that blog yesterday, and it showed up as having been posted, but today it's just evaporated into la-la land. A posting comment, however, was the only contact point I could find for that website, but I'd really like to know what "housing development" in Worcester the poster was talking about, and when this alleged abandonment via bankruptcy maneuver by Mr. Park actually took place. If you're going to paint the most significant developer in the history of the city as a shady scam artist, you really need to take the particulars of your claim out of the shade.
Anybody have any particulars on this? Or is that post on Worcester County Freedom trail just a flat-out lie?
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Channel 3 interviewed Mr. Perotto last night before the Council mtg, and it didn't sound like he had much new to report--maybe this is why the paper didn't have a story about the CitySquare mtg.
It's not a lie, Jeff. It's the development at the top of Blithewood and Massasoit, formerly called Blithewood Heights. We were one of the first owners into the development. Mr. Park declared bankruptcy and walked away before he finished the punch list on a number of the houses. He also walked away on the whole development plan: we were supposed to have the high end units, but after he left the people that took over put in lower end units. So much for planned property value, eh? Left a sour taste in my mouth for developers in general. I hope they're not all like that.
I mentioned this to several city officials once I heard City Square had landed in Park's lap. No idea if they queried him about it.
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