Mike Harrah’s victory was a victory for Santa Ana’s working families
Mike Harrah sat quietly with his friend Gil Marrero as the Santa Ana City Council began their One Broadway Plaza Public Hearing tonight. His fate was entirely in the hands of the City Council. Around him sat dozens of union members – most of them residents of the City of Santa Ana.
In all, 35 people turned in speaker request cards. One by one, Mayor Miguel Pulido began to call their names.
The opponents to the amendments that Harrah was seeking with regard to his One Broadway Plaza development were all white, with one exception. They included a plethora of Usual Suspects. One by one they crept to the microphone and lied. One after the other they piled on the misinformation.
They lied about the developer agreement having to be put in front of the voters. The City Attorney quickly debunked that fraudulent claim.
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Well you have short memory Pedroza,
In 2004 SA Mayoral election, I was the only mayoral Candidate supporting B1 project and have received 10,000 votes against Pulido…. historically the highest among his opponents.
For that I was attack by Trojan horse Candidates which included you Sin Mill, Gordon, etc… jointly with your friends then, today the usual suspects, who forced the special election.
This victory for Harrah today is my victory too…. obviously you will not print the truth.
This is one of many proves that I am a visionary and my leadership would be beneficial for the Santa Ana.
However, I believe that today’s ruling is too little, too late for Harrah because he missed the window of the opportunity thanks to your hysteria against the progress.
I was also the only candidate for the open borders with legal crossing no any ID (like US citizens to the Mexico) without a welfare once here.
Again you are clinching on the welfare and illegality and you will lose again….. the only time will tell.
Fiala,
I had forgotten all that. Interesting. Will you be running again this November?
Kindly, I have a bigger fish to fry.
AHHH…. Those were the days, when men, were men…..
Harrah gets another puff piece
BY ART PEDROZA – JANUARY 17, 2008
POSTED IN: CLASSIC JUICE 1
There is a ridiculous puff piece about Mike Harrah, the notorious developer who recently got busted in Hawaii for using illegal immigrants on a building project, in something called “Live OC.”
The article is a bit hard to find oline, but you can do so by clicking here, then click on “Amusement,” and then on the Mike Harrah article.
The article also fails to mention that Harrah has virtually destroyed a historic building, in the process of preparing the lot where he is supposedly going to build his One Broadway Tower.
And it fails to mention that he got caught, by one of our bloggers, doing illegal asbestos abatement while razing a building on the OBP lot.
I truly doubt that Harrah will ever find enough tenants for his OBP project. Not in today’s soft market – and not with a recession looming. But his PR staff is working overtime to promote him, and OBP. Perhaps to take away attention from Measure D?
anonster,
Times have changed since 2005. Back then the economy was doing fine. People were working. Today our city has a massive structural deficit. Folks are out of work. The economy is a mess.
OBP would put people to work. If Harrah can come up with the funding, then I say let him build it.
The City Council made it clear last night that he is not getting any redevelopment money. Now the ball is in his court.
“Times have changed since 2005″……. by a definition the time is always changing Pedroza.
However, it is ability to see the future to be a leader and to plan so you arrive to better times……. historically the Latinos have no such ability otherwise the Mexico, Spain, Portugal and the rest of the Latin world would be prosperous.
Yet you are constantly rooting for the Latinos in this blog….. that is wrong for the Santa Ana future.
Take it from me the visionary……. the truth is not racism.
Furthermore, this ruling comes to late to save Santa Ana or Harrah anyway.
@Stan Fiala
you say, “However, it is ability to see the future to be a leader and to plan so you arrive to better times……. [HISTORICALLY THE LATINOS HAVE NO SUCH ABILITY] …Take it from me the visionary……. the truth is not racism.”
I give you a different vision:
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt . — (George Eliot )
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.– Abraham Lincoln (also attr. Confucius)
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.– Mark Twain (1835-1910)
And from AverageJoe:
“When people have BS opinions, they come out as brain f.a.r.t.s!”
We will see.
(-Blind)
Is there some sort of guarantee that the people hired to build this phallic, disproportionate homage to one man’s ego will be residents of Santa Ana? Or that a particular percentage of them would be Santa Ana residents? Because if there isn’t, this ridiculous “jobs” argument that you’re pedaling doesn’t wash.
@Anon:
From my recollection, Mayor Pro-Tem Claudia Alvarez stated last night that the City Council would be ensuring that a requirement is enforced that the workers are hired from local Santa Ana residents, (which she referred to I believe as the PLA – Project Labor Agreement). She said this requirement should be enforced as long as it does not conflict with any Union rules, e.g., those pertaining to seniority.
What does she knows….. pobrecita.
Any interference with the free market forces will bankrupt Harrah.
Now do not tell anyone!….. This is a secret.
Harrah can’t build in this current economy so he is packaging 1BP permit as a 5 year investment derivative to to venture capital. Even Pulidido is kept in dark.
@Stan Fiala:
It seemed that the Union workers where there because Mr. Harrah promised to use Union workers. So Mayor Pro-Tem Claudia Alvarez is only seeking to ensure what Mr. Harrah has promised through the Project Labor Agreement, and that is to ensure local labor is used.
Also, it seems that to allow market forces to work, the City Council removed the 50% occupancy requirement, and that no taxpayer funds would be used (could not make request for govt redevelopment funds)
For example, by removing the 50% pre-lease provision you remove a mandated requirement, which now frees up Mr. Harrah to more freely seek Private financing…so it is now up to the private financeers/Market forces to determine the viability of this project, because it is theirs and Mr. Harrah’s money that is at risk . . .
In a time of economic distress as we are going through, developers who put “skin on the game” should be commended because it is this entrepreneurial spirit that will put our community back to work…what needs to follow this entrepreneurial spirit is the financing from the banks, especially if they received a bailout from the taxpayers (unfortunately with no requirement to lend).
So we are in the understanding.
I did not meant to present it as a negative Harrah’s behavior, in contrary.
But there will be no building for at least 5 years.
“She said this requirement should be enforced as long as it does not conflict with any Union rules, e.g., those pertaining to seniority.”
In other words, there’s a loophole, right?
Assuming that pobrecita does not know the economy, she was just reciting the usual politician’s crapola.
Do not pay attention to that!
Pay attention to Harrah.
It should break ground before the new year.
If not, it would need a redesigned because of changes to the building code.