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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Omar on Western Rail Yards Project
2:37:57
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74 sec
Omar expresses strong support for the Western Rail Yards project, emphasizing its potential benefits including schools, job creation, and housing. He urges approval of the project, citing Related Companies' track record and the project's potential positive impact on the neighborhood, state, and country.
- Highlights the project's 4,000 housing units as a significant benefit
- Expresses trust in Related Companies based on their previous work, including Hudson Yards
- Argues that the project will bring transformative change beyond just the local neighborhood
Omar
2:37:57
Good afternoon.
2:37:58
How are you?
2:37:58
How is everything?
2:37:59
And thank you so much for this opportunity.
2:38:02
Who can say no to schools?
2:38:06
Who can say no for thousands of jobs in in the neighborhood?
2:38:11
Who can say no to this big project?
2:38:16
You know, that's that's a 4,000 everybody's talking about stuff and all of that.
2:38:21
That's a 4,000 housing and apartments in this project.
2:38:28
That's that's that's a that's a lot.
2:38:30
That's 4,000 families will be in this, you know.
2:38:35
And and we we trust related company.
2:38:39
We already saw what they did, you know, everywhere.
2:38:43
Hudson Yard and all the projects they've been doing is not like someone we didn't know.
2:38:48
He just come in here and saying I'm gonna do that and you didn't know.
2:38:53
This is a trusted company.
2:38:55
You see them you know you see their work before.
2:38:59
So I say please please to say yes to this project because it's not just gonna change the neighborhood only, the state, and the country as well.
2:39:10
Thank you so much.