2/01/2006
Developer Agrees To More Green To Shut Carty Up
(Toledo, OH) Owners of the Westgate shopping center, who want to bring a Costco store to the site and redevelop the retail space, have agreed to a compromise solution with Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner.
"We bought 3,000 gallons of green outdoor paint to keep the nutjob happy," said Liz Holland, chief executive officer of the Chicago company that owns Westagte. "In our last meeting he kept repeating this "green, green, green" mantra over and over, and we finally figured out a way to shut him up."
Under the terms of the agreement, surreptitiously obtained by Toledo Tales, Abbell Credit Corporation agrees to at least 1.5 acres of "green space" on the remodeled site.
"Carty will have his green," Holland added cryptically. "We will make sure that any green Carty needs will happen."
The mayor could not be reached for comment at press time, but a spokesperson said that Mr. Finkbeiner is "happy that Abbell will not be holding back on the green."