Having flown into the airport in 2007 and 2016....I will say they’d need three to four times that amount of money to ‘renovate’ or fix the place. If you asked me to rank it....it’s the worst of the top forty airports in the US.
“...Minority and Women-Owned Business...”
They’ll install the toilets that never flush. /spit
“$19 billion public-private effort to transform JFK”
It will cost twice that and end up like the rail to no where in kali-fornia.
They pay money and nothing gets fixed except the elections.
The actual cost will be in the millions.
The country is so balkanized and intersectional now that anyone could claim minority status.
There is no “they” in team.
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THERE'S the "institutionalized racism" some folks are whining about ...
“where a record $2.3 billion in contracts have been awarded to Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE).”
or 12.1% of the contracts
“The JFK redevelopment also demonstrates a significant focus on working with local contractors, awarding more than $950 million in contracts to Queens-based businesses to date.”
or about 5% of the contracts
which means “minority” contractors got contracts more than twice as often as local contractors
makes you wonder just where the “minority” contractors were from
Everything built in NYC costs ten times what it costs somewhere else, and many many projects are never ever ending - they just seem to go on forever.
“where a record $2.3 billion in contracts have been awarded to Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises”
Another DEI success story?
The MWBE status of most of these companies is merely a pencil-whipped process with little basis in the daily operational reality of the business.
Probably blatant race and sex discrimination. Any other bidders? Or maybe they just don't bother any more.
RACISTS!
Many blacks are captured by the Democrats and government in prison-camp/capo sort of relationship.
Projects like this, where all bidders must be minority/women are symbolic of this relationship
There’s a re-development project of an old school going on in our town. There are a number of bidders. The only black developer is a politically connected person, and has obtained all State-Federal grant money for the project - which of course means the housing will be Section 8/low-incoming and migrant.
The local residents don’t want that in their midst, so thy oppose his proposal.
That makes them “racist,” of course.
Expect over budget, blown schedule, major change orders, poor quality, mob payoffs.
Contracts have been awarded to Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprises.
Define a woman now days big Tony seen at meeting with a dress on.
I identify as black, latino and native American, I want’s me some of that money. Since I identify as all three of those ethnicities does that mean I get a three for one offer?
“....is about so much more than new gates and terminals. It’s about upward mobility and pathways to prosperity...”
Republicans are a minority in New York
How many Republican-owned companies received contracts?
What an award. These firms will do absolutely nothing. It is a payoff to an extortion ring.