sje writes in the mad hot Daily Heights message boards: “I heard the lease was signed today for a new Korean restaurant on Vanderbilt Ave. from a very reliable source. Very excited about it! … It’s supposed to open September, October at the latest … Corner of Vanderbilt and St. Marks. I heard tonight that it’s going to be Korean/Asian cuisine.”

crunkyteen adds: “I hear it’s a Korean bbq joint from the guy from Soda and the gal from Le Gamin [who is Korean-ed].”

ana.log says, “let’s hope it’s better than the Indian place. I was excited about those guys too.”

Link: Korean on Vanderbilt! [sje on “the boards”]
[photo: Korean football fans celebrate World Cup quarter-finals win]

Marie Louis of BUILD writes on DAILY HEIGHTS: “I think it would be great to have a public debate between BUILD and DDDb on the value of Atlantic Yards and the CBA to our community. We believe in our mission of using the development process to create and connect people to sorely needed employment, business, affordable housing and educational opportunities. We must close the wealth, unemployment and poverty gaps that has rendered our community into a state of socio-economic apartheid. Pockets of wealth in the midst of neighhorhoods grappling with extreme rates of poverty, unemployment and underclass entrapment.”

“Instead of complaining about challenges or ignoring them BUILD recognized the hope and the potential to connect people to opportunties through the Atlantic Yards / Nets Arena project. Opportunities to help make a dent in the local unemployment and poverty crises by changing the paradigm for how development transpires in neighborhood. Consequently [BUILD] launched a movement to secure a Community Benefits Agreement for Atlantic Yards- Announced at our first conference on Sunday, February 9, 2004 on the steps of City Hall.”

“We praise God for blessing us with the success of signing a CBA on Monday, June 27, 2005.”

“Again, my parting words are: I challenge Develop Don’t Destroy to a public Debate on The Value of FCRC’s Atlantic Yards and why it would be detrimental to our community for it to not move forward.”

LINKS:
Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development [buildbrooklyn.org]
Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn [dddb.net]

REVEALED: The Source of BUILD’s Wealth [Daily Heights]
BUILD Burns Midnight Oil on Vanderbilt Ave. [Daily Heights]
Are “Angry Yards” Protesters Ratner Puppets? [Daily Heights]