Tax Breaks Won’t Help, Public Investment Will
December 12, 2001. An op ed in the New York Daily News on the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan, by David Dyssegaard Kallick and James Parrott. The newly appointed Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corp. will meet for the first time next week. When it does, it needs to begin work, in an open process, on a plan to increase the attractiveness of lower Manhattan through public investments, not tax incentives. Before the mayoral election, politicians and establishment leaders of all stripes seemed to believe the key tool [...]